So this first beta lasts 3 weeks and the only way in is through the 1 day twitch watch window and/or the sign-up email prior?
Correct.
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I would also like to take the step to pat people on the back for expressing their disappointment at this debacle while doubters patronize you with their “this is to be expected” responses. You’ve been wronged. I feel you.
We both have been long enough on this forum to know why I had to do it 
“You’ve been wronged for not being let into a closed beta that is limited to only a very limited amount of people” 
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Because like server stability testing isn’t exactly, well and exact science. their basically just green lighting another wave if it doesn’t implode after so much time. As like not everyone in a wave will be getting in at the same time. So setting up pre schedules would require them set up enough time in between each wave at fixed periods, were as instead they can just green light when they have the ok and not wait.
That and if things do go wrong and the servers have to be down for multiple waves, they can’t just let everyone it at once. As that would create the exact issue their trying to prevent. On top of frustrating people that say planed ahead in a wave.
Like it’s done this way for a reason. as most beta’s like this are.
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Ok? and even with just hundreds of players (let alone thousands) would be a logistical nightmare. What you smokin, mate? Pass that sh**
But what if those pre-selected times don’t work out for the beta player? Then they miss their times and run the risk of creating a dead server with no player data because it’s a busy time AND people complain they they can’t even play if they get in lol
That’s a statistical nightmare to set up lol
If you expected to get into this closed beta, then I guess you’ve just never signed up for a closed beta before. MOST people don’t get in.
I’m saying that this hypotehtical is going to be infintely better for bad servers than letting everyone who gets a twitch drop on tomorrow. What exactly are you all arguing? I’ saying, that if servers are an issue, then there are solutions. The fact that everyone will get access tomorrow dismissed that the servers are the problem.
Maybe instead of attacking each other’s dashed expectations we could all share the same sentiment that we’re disappointed instead of acting like we’re indifferent to the way this went down. It could’ve gone either way. We could all be playing OW2 and not thinking about how unlikely this is, or we could be where we are now. It’s a case of the 1% of the player base thinking this behavior is to be expected putting down the other 99% who got their hopes up.
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You’re not addressing that it causes a whole host of other issues lol. It’s not “infinitely better”
Will I also get access to future OW2 betas if I don’t get an email invite but get access via twitch drops or is it just access for these 3 weeks
The argument can not be that the servers can’t take it today, then you expect the servers to be able to take it tomorrow. Wtf?
Rephrase your argument to make sense
It’s about your timing idea, reread what was actually written instead of jumping to conclusions
I literally never said this
To be clear, I doubt the servers are that feeble. My pointis that IF the servers aren’t going to work, then there are some solutions.
But again the servers either will or won’t work as it is. We need to accept this rollout was the optimize twitch views and had nothing to do with server stress.
As for your argument, what if the twitch tomes don’t work out for people? Didn’t seem to stop blizz there
So the OPT-IN was a lottery correct? seems like it was a false sense of hope to give to the community that has been neglected for some time. Why didn’t they disclose and not do opt-in completely and just do Twitch drops today and tomorrow for set times? Allow the streamers access only at the start. This allows full transparency. But then again on the NPS(Net promoter score) Activision Blizzard is rank #567 on customer relationship satisfaction compared to it’s competitor such as Ubisoft (which is also pretty terrible) rank #80. One would expect the marketing team just did not understand how to effectively promote access through fairly push transparency among the community. Seems they saw huge publicity and trends by implementing the opt-in lottery, twitch stream the NEXT day, and lack of communication to keep people talking.
Correct.
Closed betas are almost always quite limited.
Disclose what exactly? Again, it should be pretty common knowledge that signing up to an open beta doesn’t guarantee access.
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Why did they do it in that format is what I was saying. Why not do no OPT-IN at all. And purely do two days of twitch drops. This would save all of us time for hoping for an email or such(lottery) and fully rely on the marketing within viewership.
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I mean, that’s kinda elitist. If someone just started playing and loving the game, what makes them any less deserving of trying the beta?
It should though. Shows who stuck with Blizzard. Although now that I think about it, I wonder where smurfs should stand since they keep buying the game. 