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Lonely_Dolphin on 07 May 2015
BlkPaladin said:

what this "demo" seems to be is a stress test of the servers, MMOs do this usually as the begining part of their "public" alpha/beta phase where the game is only available to the testers for an hour or two a day and between days they use the information from the previous test to adjust the servers and test the new settings with the next session.

And to explain the short times. Short time = a large amount of people playing at the same time, usually. And the longer you make the sessions depending on the genre you can not assure that most of the people will stay on the entire time. MMORPG's stress tests are usually a few hours in length because it a game genre that eats time. Shooters on the other hand are shorter affairs, so the test is shorter to ensure that the user base remain relatively constant during each period.


Ah, a perfect explanation! But of course the entitled people will still complain and spin it negatively because reasons!



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Lonely_Dolphin on 08 May 2015

1st Session is in 7 hours from now peoples! It seems many are going to be livestreaming this, so afterwards I'm gonna have to look and see if I made it into any famous people's videos! I know if I see someone like Andre from GameXplain I may or may not kill them at every opportunity just to hear them complain about me in the stream! >:3



Lonely_Dolphin on 08 May 2015

Under 5 minutes!!! Heh, I see a bunch of friends online ready and waiting! Good luck and have fun to you all!



Boutros on 08 May 2015

Downloading!



Samus Aran on 08 May 2015

Can't connect...



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vkaraujo on 08 May 2015

I'm VK, ( i suck btw) XD, but i'm ON. o/



Cloudman on 08 May 2015

Lucky guys... I have work now... >: /



 

              

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Lonely_Dolphin on 08 May 2015

Woo went a game without dying once!



Boutros on 08 May 2015

Oh god aiming with the gamepad isn't intuitive at all for me. Being a squid is fun though.



KingdomHeartsFan on 08 May 2015

The map is getting on my nerves...looking down at the gamepad map is way worse than having a minimap on the screen.  Is there anyway to put a minimap on the screen?