The Burning Crusade Classic Beta Has Begun!

Originally Posted by Erous

Another streamer-focused invite. They do realize that's not working by now, right?

Im sure YOU will be able to find more bugs and bring in more hype than a streamer with several thousand viewers.

They are totally not inviting big streamers/content creators to build hype or anything.

Originally Posted by Prag

Nothing funnier than watching pserver dudes who did nothing but shit on Blizzard for retail get invited.

I get it’s all about the hype, now.

"Now." LOL.

Beta tests are purely a marketing scheme, and have been for the better part of a decade at the very least. That or testing things like server loads and capacity limits. They don't give a single, solitary fuck about any feedback unless it comes from their marketing department.

Originally Posted by arr0gance

Yeah, why do they need a Beta build to test an entirely new thing they've never done before? Blizzard should just be able to release the game in a 100% finished state with zero bugs with absolutely zero feedback from the actual millions of players who'd give them free QA. Duh!

Unironically yes.

Thankgod another decent version of wow i can play for a year or so.

Last time I recall getting beta invite was for MoP where it was guaranteed for those who bought the Annual Pass. Even then I was among the very last wave to get it. So, how about it Blizzard? For once?

So now that beta is released. Can we safely say that the launch is a good 3-4 months away? Give or take. I'm currently trying to level to 60 in classic before the launch and I want to know if I have time. Granted, I am dogshit at leveling, but still...

Just to be clear, I am currently level 37 in classic (been a new character for almost 3 weeks real time).

Originally Posted by Frolk

Im sure YOU will be able to find more bugs and bring in more hype than a streamer with several thousand viewers.

He won't generate a lot of hype, but beta tests shouldn't be about hype at all but about finding and fixing bugs. I highly doubt the big streamers will report a lot of them. Maybe they will at least try to exploit something and so it might be getting fixed if Blizzard watches that...

Originally Posted by Soulsinger

"Make sure your drivers are up to date."

For Burning Crusade.

Burning. Crusade.

This is exactly what I thought lmao

Sometimes it feels like I'm not in on Blizzard's 4D chess joke, making betas for content they literally already fucking released over a decade ago. At this point I feel like these are just theatrics and free advertising.

Can't wait to see the fields of lock, rogues, warriors and druids!

Originally Posted by clark2006

No beta club since 2007. Never had a beta invite to anything blizz related, been a hardcore paying player for 14 years.

Define hardcore, if you were doing high keys/CE raiding you'd have gotten beta invites every time.

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Originally Posted by SinR

I still don't understand what they need the Beta for

To test 13 year old code running on the legion engine?

Originally Posted by Soulsinger

"Make sure your drivers are up to date."

For Burning Crusade.

Burning. Crusade.

It runs on a new client. Also reporting bugs/performance issues while your systems is out of date is obstruction.

Some people in this thread seem to be unaware that they are porting TBC over, in it's entirety, to the new, modern client.

There are going to be bugs.

Originally Posted by SinR

I still don't understand what they need the Beta for

Any techy person would understand. Techy people are the best for writing a constructive bug reports.

Originally Posted by Irian

This is exactly what I thought lmao

Sometimes it feels like I'm not in on Blizzard's 4D chess joke, making betas for content they literally already fucking released over a decade ago. At this point I feel like these are just theatrics and free advertising.

They released Burning Crusade over decade ago. Now they are releasing Classic: Burning Crusade.

The difference is in the engine. Classic TBC is based on Shadowlands. The same way Classic was based on Battle for Azeroth. They have modern client running old data of course they need to beta test it to some extent.

Originally Posted by Dwarni

He won't generate a lot of hype, but beta tests shouldn't be about hype at all but about finding and fixing bugs. I highly doubt the big streamers will report a lot of them. Maybe they will at least try to exploit something and so it might be getting fixed if Blizzard watches that...

Betas are advertisment, does not matter what you think about it. Btw, they are advertisement due to one reason. The community. When the classic beta released, over 100k people watched Asmongold do Deadmines. Blizzard and asmon would be stupid to not try to profit of off that.

"I highly doubt the big streamers will report a lot of them". How many beta streams have you watched? Asmon literally brainstormed with thousands of viewers of what to test in classic beta, preach is submitting bugs all the time. Obviously if you watch a streamer that has already played for 1-2 weeks he will submit less bugs, because it becomes tedious, but they definetly do.
How do you compare not streaming people to streaming people, you literally have no idea how many bugs are submitted per person.

You guys all are just jelly, because you havent gotten an invite.

Originally Posted by Nite92

How do you compare not streaming people to streaming people, you literally have no idea how many bugs are submitted per person.

You guys all are just jelly, because you havent gotten an invite.

The funny part is that many who complain not getting into beta are also the type of "testers" to just /duel in front of SW/Org gates with their instant characters.

I don't want to test the Beta, since I don't have enough time to do it.

Maybe Beta tests are now marketing instruments of Blizzard and other gaming companies but the original definition is something else. And yeah I am sure a lot of non streamers getting invited will also only play and not really do testing.

How many will for example level up a character from 1 during BC beta?

Originally Posted by Viikkis

The funny part is that many who complain not getting into beta are also the type of "testers" to just /duel in front of SW/Org gates with their instant characters.

Not that dueling can't be a way to test, but getting popular streamers into Beta test first is like a no brainer:

It's actually beneficial for the game, even if streamer haters don't admit it. Most streamers are very cautious on changes and are very vocal about about something they don't like, which has lead to changes to get game in the past.
Has shitton of time to play the game.
Has same capability on reporting bugs as normal person (potentially will report more, because of being in "public"/viewers can spot and point out more bugs)
Creates hype about the game.
Does community events in beta tests, which gives a "smoke and mirrors" effect on what the game will be after the launch.
Different streamers have different communities with different interests and you can see how people react to something.

How much do I get paid for BETA testing?
If it's more or equal to 10 euros an hour (AFTER taxes) I might think about it.

Hit me up in PM.

Originally Posted by Dwarni

How many will for example level up a character from 1 during BC beta?

I will do my horde paladin.
On the same note I said I will reach max level in classic when it released there is that.