If the latest sitecrashing is any indication, the CoD4 beta has followed in a long line of betas, demos, and other such things that have suffered a website crash at the appointed time. When will folks finally realize that unless you have a huge server backing you up, all you've accomplished is a lot of angry fanboys spamming your site.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, Call of Duty 4 beta tokens were handed out today at 12 PST. Instead of people wasting 2-3 minutes of their time trying to be one of the lucky few, a bunch of folks wasted about 20-25 minutes due to server issues.
Can we take a new approach to this beta thing already? Nevermind the fact that it's going to simply be an early shot to play the game, but people actually interested in bending the rules and finding bugs that can fixed for release are getting locked out by random folks with no real interest in the game.
Maybe these issues can't be fixed on the front end like this, but can we start kicking people out who aren't submitting notes about it? That's why it's a beta, right? Say, if you don't submit some sort of ticket every couple of weeks with substance to it, say goodbye to your beta access.
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I'm just disappointed, I've been posting on the site since the day it popped up...and I get the shaft because I didn't have 86 tabs open.
I say we line up around "Beta kitchens" with all the other orphans and beg for invites.
First of all, these Xbox 360 "betas" aren't really betas, but a marketing ploy.
All I know is that I'm not buying any game from a developer who pulls this "beta" shit again.
I didn't even have a chance to sign up since they refused over and over to send me a confirmation e-mail when I registered. :[