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Fallout 76 News - The Fallout 76 forum has been updated with a brief post about the start of the first round of closed beta testing. According to the post, the first round of beta testers will be selected beginning in October. Anyone who pre-orders the game will be eligible for selection and, while the first event will be a small scale beta, the plan is to ramp up the number of players as FO76 heads to launch.
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This have been a good conversation
I ordered the game directly from Bethesda. But for those players who will be in the beta test, the only way to access the game will be by digital download. The CDs won't be shipped until release day. Truth be told, I tested a number of games over the years and I recall one studio was up front about the production time needed for game CDs. That studio claimed it took a month to manufacture the CDs, other gaming materials, package them up, and then ship them in time for all their retailers. So assuming that production window still applies, the beta version will be the same version as being shipped to the retailers. If anything the beta version might even be a version or two ahead of the retail CD version depending on any critical issues discovered during open beta.
Ofcourse, these days even alpha access isnt free.
But also it means if you pre-order you have to work as beta tester... for free. And if there will be bugs after release, Bethesda is gonna blame those who pre-ordered. : b
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What could go wrong... Maybe the Sarcasm isn't fitting but since I've been gaming for far longer than I would like to admit. It just seems like at a minimum you would want 6 months of testing and by "testing" I don't mean in house QA testing.
For reference the first two projects I beta tested were on Quantum Link back in the 80's. (rabbit jack's casino (yes lol) and a game called Habitat that was a Lucas Arts thing on there).
Pre-order now for a chance to be selected for "beta testing"...
I guess this was inevitable, lol
Then they can charge full price......genius.
Being Bethesda they know players will be expecting lots of bugs, always true for them at launch.
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They said at E3 that it wasn't for quality etc. They just want to test the multi-player mechanics with more people. It isn't a real beta. Feedback will not likely impact core design etc. Something like that anyway
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