“your Battle.net region, when you signed up, and your computer hardware specifications.”
The bold bit gives me hope since it feels like "the faster you signed up the higher chance you have if getting in. Computer hardware as well since I play on a laptop.
This gives me SOME additional hope as well: “you will need to own a Copy of Overwatch 1 to access the 1st Closed Beta” because it means people that bought the game only to access the beta, in addition to those have alt accounts that signed up for a “higher chance” AFTER people signing up with just 1 account have a lower chance of getting in since most with only 1 account signed up fastest.
Maybe the computer specs bit might also help with the alt account issue since they can’t have tons of the same specs.
There is no first come first served. They already said as long as you sign up before the cut off you are equally as likely to get in
Considering they havent screened anyone for pc specs etc. it has to be purely random at this point.
If they wanted a wide range of specs/players they would have made everyone fill in a survey to get that info and then filter specific kinds of people.
I signed up on my phone so they cant have any info on what my specs are for my pc.
Whats going to happen is priority will be given to content creators/streamers etc. because thats free marketing for blizzard. And then after all the priority people have it they will randomly let members of the public in
What about last settings everyone played on? The settings page on the game shows some PC specs like graphics card and CPU I think. They could find out through that.
I signed up on my phone. There is no way they can see my pc specs
Also being able to see your customers pc specifications feels like legal trouble waiting to happen. Surely they either arent able to physically see players specs or legally arent able to view them
I bet majority of people wont get in and i dont think the playerbase is actually prepared for that. Likely only a couple 100,000 compared to the millions that have played Overwatch. So am expecting so much vitriol when the beta finally comes out.
They said they are having multiple betas through the year where they will let more people in. Hence people may be waiting 3-5 more months to play
They get it from when you launched Overwatch or at least the battle.net launcher.
Without any of those you have a 0% getting accepted since you would either:
Not own a OW1 license
Have 0 hours playtime
Which both are good reasons to reject a beta sign-up.
As their ToS States:
3.4
You agree to allow Blizzard to obtain hardware and software information from the computer system that you will use to take part in the Beta Test (the “Beta Test System”) prior to registration for the Beta Test in order for Blizzard to determine if you are eligible to participate in the Beta Test; and
So i don’t think they would be violating any of their own terms which we accepted upon creating our accounts.
Also some other things i found:
e. Acknowledgments. You acknowledge that:
the Game being Beta Tested is a work in progress and may contain bugs which may cause loss of data and/or damage to your computer system;
you have, or will, back-up your hard drive prior to installation of the Beta;
you have the resources necessary to easily reinstall the Beta Test System’s operating system and restore any and all data that may be lost;
Blizzard is not liable in any way for the loss of data or damage to the Beta Test System, interruptions of service, software or hardware failures, or loss of data or disruption of service;
Blizzard may monitor and record any and all communications, electronic or otherwise, pertaining to the Beta including, without limitation, packets, in-game chat, forum postings, etc.;
Blizzard may delete or modify the information stored by the Platform or the Game being Beta Tested for any reason at any time during the duration of the Beta Test;
Blizzard may transfer software program files to the Beta Test System, including a program that will collect and send Blizzard CPU, RAM, operating system, video card, and sound card information from the Beta Test System; and
You may not sell, transfer or commercially exploit access to a Beta, including the distribution of Beta keys without Blizzard’s express authorization.
Also considering i play on console they cant see my pc specs i have never opened the blizzard client on my pc.
Anything blizz related i do on my phone
And these are not good reasons to reject a beta applicant lol. So privileged. The beta is supposed to be a way to get player feedback. Why would you only let people who have played Overwatch 1 play it you want new people to play it so you can understand how a new player will feel. Overwatch 1 players are biased and jaded, in fact they are probably less wanting your feedback compared to someone who has never played before
Won’t matter because console players aren’t in the first beta. So if you’re on console and want to get in the beta you would have to sign up with your PC Overwatch account. And if you’ve never opened PC Overwatch, they can’t see your settings which means super low chance of getting in.
It does matter, thinking that just shows that you aren’t experienced with this.
A closed beta is done before an open beta to polish out the roughest of edges, it’s much easier to do that with a closed beta.
They’re letting players in with experience of the client, knowing in what way certain things should function.
Letting in players that provide feedback that isn’t a priority of that moment is just a pure waste of time… well not a complete waste of time but it slows down the process.
New players don’t know jack about the game, experienced playersk now more.
It’s easier to manage hundreds of players giving feedback instead of thousands of which they don’t know what they’re talking about.
Why do you have such a problem with a closed beta anyways?
It’s their choice, if they want to get new players into it then they would obviously do an open beta.
You think you’d know more than an actual company?
With your argument you would pretty much be saying that almost every company that has done seperate closed/open beta’s are making a bad choice, which again i doubt.
No Just shows how much privilege you think you have and deserve
You want more new players in to make sure that the game is a good experience. If you have a game with a terrible first impression for new players you have failed at the first hurdle.
Open betas happen literally weeks before launch, much too late to change core pillars of the games design. You want new people in early to make sure the game is accessible to them, if it isnt and they feel left out etc your game wont grow. Which is an immediate failure.
Difference between closed betas and open betas is purely the size and breadth of the testing and features.
Open beta is for bug testing and polish not closed betas like you say. Shows how little you understand. You take the near final design of the game, lock it down and make sure its ready to go for launch by testing for bugs and problems. Fix them and then launch few weeks later.
Closed beta is for design feedback and shaping the game while in development. A place where you want specifically new player feedback so that your game doesnt ostracise them from the get go. Old players arent actually overly important here since the feedback regarding balance they will offer etc can be changed later.
Its the core design of things that they will be testing and wanting feedback on. That way they have to time to change it for launch. Does the ping system feel good etc. an apex player for example would be a good player to get feedback from since they have experience with a ping system in their game. How does it compare. How can we make Overwatchs better. Doesn’t matter if they havent played Overwatch before does it?? Their feedback is more important than someone who has only played Overwatch.
An open beta is used to polish out the smaller bugs and change QoL things, usually also combined with the attempt of reeling in new players.
Knowing we are at the closed beta stage… yes it’s going to take a while until full release, so we’re clearly not in the “marketing” stage that makes use of a damn open beta.
A closed beta is used to polish out major bugs, which are easier to spot if you are aware of how something is supposed to behave…
If i would care about “privilege” then i would be giving the argument that the players were starved for content too long and that they deserve beta access… but again this is a closed beta.
Literally used in a different way than an open beta is used.
Yes open beta’s are mainly focussed on bug fixing, this doesn’t mean that a closed beta isn’t used for that.
I also personally think that the existing playerbase has a feel for balance.
Imagine a level 30 player deciding which player should be good whilst they can barely think of positioning within the game itself.
I’m not saying balance should be restricted to higher ranks and other specific groups because the opinion of others don’t matter… but it’s literally logical to do it this way.
You literally want to change a closed beta into an open beta, might aswell merge them both into one.
I want everyone to be able to play the game, though i don’t want to put the future in the hands of players who don’t even know how to properly play the game.
If a hero feels bad to a new player there is an issue there no?
Doesnt matter if existing players can handle it and its not an issue.
If the first experience new players get is bad they will leave. Simple as. You want new player feedback doesnt matter how accurate it actually is in the wider game scope.
Like i said in my above post. Maybe you want someone who has familiarity with a ping system’s opinion on Overwatchs new ping system. Maybe Someone who has never played Overwatch before but has lots of experience with apex. Surely you want their feedback on the ping system now not 3 weeks before launch??? Pointless asking Overwatch players how the ping system feels when they have no prior understanding of it.
Surely you want people from other games trying your game and giving feedback? No? Otherwise how do you hope to get new people in.
You seem to be stuck in this thought where they should be designing ow2 for ow1 players that is just destined to fail. They need to be designing the game with outside players feedback. Surely you want people like shroud giving feedback on your game regardless that they dont play Overwatch.
This don’t matters, your PC specs and player count required matters, means that if you PC specs isn’t at least OW2 minimum specs you will not be selected for closed beta.
EVERYONE that don’t match at least minimum pc specs will be automatically removed from closed beta test, i hate blizz alot for this dumb decision.
This is half true, but also closed beta is major to test if they servers can handle minimum amount of concurrent connections, and ensure that servers will not blow up
To polish and fix major problems less players will not help, because an small amount of players can discover some bugs, but not all/critical bugs (that usually appear when have many players playing)
That’s funny because Valorant distributed closed beta access to everyone lmao, even if they weren’t sure that servers was able to handle that amount of players. You just literally watched an stream for some amount of hours and received closed beta access directly linked to your account with twitch platform.
And yeah, alt accounts with minimum specs to run OW2 will able to receive many closed beta access, thanks for blizz for not filtering this.
The title of the first beta is: “Overwatch 2 PvP Technical Beta Test I”. So yeah I can imagine they trying out how the game is running on many different mashines.
It sounds kinda like a cheap trick. If you learned about the beta like a week before the thing goes live, you’d basically have no chance. I imagined the “when you signed up” means when you registered the OW game, as in how long you’ve been here for.
i have never opened the blizzard client on my pc.
