For those who want a beta, how

Testers are chosen for a variety of reasons. In the past I have been invited and I saw no reason why other than I played on an older Mac.

But I haven’t done any other Betas since I didn’t want to spoil that sense of wonder as I started a new expansion since the second time around was like leveling an alt.

They will prove you wrong, because honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a beta to begin with.

I am currently playing on a private server 1.12.1 it is going to be migrating to a 2.4.3 server with progressive content release very soon.

If I got selected for a beta I would switch to the official beta, otherwise I would handle it fine and continue my happy life.

Questions?

If you were never invited to an alpha or beta before… you will not be invited to this one.

Randomly and in large numbers would be ideal… this cant be handled as a pr thing. Blizzard needs players to beta test 1-60 properly it cant be a hack drop like bfa.

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The only transactional pool likely to increase odds of a Beta Invite, as per past precedent, would be BlizzCon. If you bought the stream, or managed to attend, that has often meant auto-invite to their next beta at some stage. Not always, but often enough.

This is why public betas are a very common practice, it is impractical to maintain and test across the hundreds/thousands of possible hardware configurations seen in the consumer market.

Yes, as it uses the retail client as a base, that shouldn’t need much testing. But as the world itself is very different from what’s in retail, including different game mechanics, there are going to be enough differences present that they’re going to want to at least run a brief beta to make sure an unexpected interaction between different (rare) hardware configurations doesn’t result in bugs that significantly impact gameplay.

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I’m sure they have other metrics in play as well, like quest completion rates, what mobs are being killed and how often, what players are dying to, etc. (The player death statistic is known to have existed in Vanilla as Westfall is reported to have hosted some of the deadliest mobs in Vanilla WoW.)

Those metrics are useful even with player feedback because that provides them feedback in regards to quest tuning, mob difficulty, etc. Sometimes people just playing the game is feedback in and of itself, by tracking the interactions they have within the game, as an individual, or more likely as an (aggregated) group.

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I would start with a closed beta and give access on by waves:
-First wave would be for people that can play it a lot and can give it a ton of exposition (streamers, youtubers, people from community sites like wowhead). Even some random active wow accounts to make the player base bigger
-On a second wave i would put smaller streamers, more random accounts (active and recently inactive ones)
-And from that on just random accounts.

Kind of like bfa beta

You’re going to have a lot of pushback with that one given how these forums feel about streamers and youtubers.

I know this is only a question, but its this group of people who are effectively responsible for the decline and ruin of World of WarCraft as we know it now.

We want classic WoW because it has never been polluted by the ideas, concepts and design choices promoted by youtube or streaming.

I am against a beta because the only thing that will need fixing in Classic are bugs, not design choices.

If there are design choices made on blizzard’s end 14 years later, these should only be limited to the kinds of things that keep Classic true to its original era, not the sort of changes promoted by people who want “things” from outside of the original Classic era.

Bug’s will always slip into the game, this is why you the player need to report them as soon as you find them; also include a detail on how the bug was encountered and how to reproduce it if you can.

Just say NO to open beta.

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Anyone who was around in Vanilla should be considered VIP and get early access to the release of Classic

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Not all betas are open betas, and the primary purpose of all betas is to fix bugs.

They should just release it.

The players can beta test it live, Blizzard can get paid. Get that old time Vanilla feel back. Folks can create a whole new folklore of being their on day one when XXX happened “but they fixed it”.

Bring on the bugs, glitches, exploits, and lag fests.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if Blizzard did a beta in the style of the Demo. Debuff for play time limiting. Open beta invites. (for subbed members - cause well ActiBliz)

The point I was making is no one should be able to re-design the game systems or alter them to meet the desires of the individual on a standardized basis.

Doing so changing the game; something we are against because we want Classic WoW, not some kind of hybrid joke.

I agree with this statement, but it has no relation to any part of a good beta, so I’m not sure why it would make you oppose a proper beta test.

I don’t think you know what betas are used for

That’s not going to change the fact that it’s going to happen.

well, we will find out in August when they release the beta