Would you pre-purchase SOW now to be a part of the Beta team?

[zaelu]

The more eyes, the more bugs, problems can be spoted and solved.

Combining it with a pre-buy... another win-win.

Ofcourse... if you have something to test...

[zauii]

Originally Posted by zaelu

The more eyes, the more bugs, problems can be spoted and solved.

Combining it with a pre-buy... another win-win.

Ofcourse... if you have something to test...

Oleg won't get a penny as long as you're ordering through stores and middle men this early. It would have to be some direct distribution done by 1c/maddox games, if the money is gonna matter(pre-order wise).

For this project i believe a closed beta would be best.

[philip.ed]

Debate aside, SoW is BETA tested internally within Oleg's team or the 1C group (he stated something similar to this a while back) so this discussion may be a bit pointless...

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Debate aside, SoW is BETA tested internally within Oleg's team or the 1C group (he stated something similar to this a while back) so this discussion may be a bit pointless...

So you think A-10C is not being tested by a group of dedicated testers? Think again.

[philip.ed]

I wasn't saying that. I was saying that, from what Oleg has said, this kind of offer won't be offerred to the community in this way.
My comment wasn't saying anything against DCS.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I wasn't saying that. I was saying that, from what Oleg has said, this kind of offer won't be offerred to the community in this way.
My comment wasn't saying anything against DCS.

It's up to Oleg to decide, if you mean it.

That doesn't make the discussion pointless, though.

[philip.ed]

But what would make it pointless is if Oleg's previous comment was set in stone. IIRC, he made it quite clear there wouldn't be an open BETA.
But you can still discuss DCS. I personally can't see SoW having an open BETA and personally I don't think it matters. Even if Oleg wished it, he wouldn't have the time (I don't think) to put it together, as they are so busy working on getting the game out. He discounted the idea of a demo for similar reasons too as far as I can recall.
However, i'd be happy to be proved wrong, although I doubt my PC could handle the game on lowest details anyway.

[HFC_Dolphin]

Has anyone told you that Beta is not running already?

[JG27CaptStubing]

The biggest difference with DCS which I purchased by the way is that is has a very strong DRM scheme... You have to activate it and deactivate it when you have hardware changes or you want it on a different machine.

I also think because the sim in a way is more complex modeling all the different systems of a modern plane it has more to flesh out. I could be wrong because of the volume of airplanes the weather stuff and many other things in SOW. Either way I like the approach and for a smaller team I think it's a great idea to get it out into the hands of the community. It also builds awareness and heck I support any Flight Sim at the moment. We is tiny.