I have played wow since Burning Crusade and have signed up to be part of every beta testing that has come up, yet after all these years I have never actually been invited to try it. Yet i know a streamer with about 300 viewers who was brand new to WoW with maybe 10 hours total played during legion and got to beta test Battle for Azeroth. I really wish that I could have at least been part of the beta testing once since I’ve supported blizzard for so many years and spent so much of my free time playing your games.
How do you guys pick who gets to try out the betas?
Edit: Since this post 2 years ago I finally was able to get into a beta test that being the test for shadowlands. Though a bit underwhelming I was overjoyed finally being able to test out the content! Hope I can get lucky again with Dragon Flight!
I wish you all good luck in your beta test invites as well!!
RNG, when it comes to choices outside FnF and streamers. Might even be random within those pools.
That said, I’m not convinced that BFA wasn’t an unprecedentedly-large testing pool. After many years of being opted in for previous expansion betas, I too only lucked out with BFA.
Alpha & Beta testing are part testing & part marketing. That’s why you see streamers & bloggers getting invited - it gets the expansion in front of their audiences.
Aside from that, I don’t know - a couple times I’ve gotten invited to the beta, other times I haven’t.
I do know that some of the larger wow streamers that play do get picked by hand to play the beta every time, I suppose it is to help market the game but to not get anything after playing this game for 13 years it feels wrong and unfair.
RNG is RNG some will get lucky some just wont ive only been in 3 and there not all there cracked up to be sure it sounds glamorous but it isnt buggy crashes alot 90% of the content is released in bits and pieces we dont get the full story since the videos are usualy place holders your not missing anything.
I’ve also been in 3 Betas. The first 2, WOD and Legion, I really felt my input was heard and I saw the changes made to reported issues. BfA was very frustrating cuz nothing was ever fixed and some of the changes made no sense. I did like Beta for the positive player attitude. Everyone were happy and friendly while exploring a new world. That’s the best part.
OP just keep trying! Good luck!
I remember getting the MoP beta. There were a lot of bugs and I suddenly wondered why I was spoiling a new expansion playing an incomplete version of it. I stopped applying for them since then.
If you have a brand new PC you’ll likely get picked. I got a new PC late BC and got into Wrath Beta, got a new rig at end of WoD got into Legion Alpha and Beta, and guess what? I got a brand new rig again and I’m expecting some Beta lovin’!
I got an invite for Legion Beta and Battle for Azeroth Beta. It’s just dumb luck. Also based on how long you’ve been a member, how much you play, those do factor into their choices. It’s meant for reporting bugs, not to experience new content. That’s why they pick groups of people that they do. Makes sense.
You have a wrong notion of what it means to participate in a test phase to begin with. You, like so many, regard it like an “early access.” It isn’t. It’s playing a broken version of the game. Not even getting into your gross sense of entitlement.
They won’t invite me. They know very well what I will do, and that I’ll test the ever loving hell out of Shadow Priest and be blunt with them about how it feels. Sure looks like the Developers just want everyone to forget that Shadow Priest exists. I say this only because their actions all of Alpha showcase that they would rather be lazy, and run the clock out instead of removing Voidcrap; and putting out the promised redesign that they said was coming back in 8.1 and fixing the spec.
Feedback is a major problem. Silence and submission is golden.
I opted in many many years ago, and the only one I’ve been invited to was MoP.
I played it for a very short period of time, but the lag was so bad, and I eventually realized I didn’t want to waste the game for myself until it was ready and I could run through it with my main.
