Christchurch Treehouse of Awesome-Where everyone knows your name

[Retardobot]

It would be, but I feel there's a need for it.

Game devs have no way of relying on beta testers. They dish out beta codes willy nilly. Most sign up because they just want to see the game and play it for free.

Creating some sort of environment where testers are held to some sort of rating system where the feedback they offer is easily funneled into a system, I believe, would be incredibly helpful.

So  dev looks at a certain user and sees that they have been active and offer good feedback so they will get future beta invites etc. and vice versa.

[Obble]

Does anyone else remember when betas were betas, and demos were demos?

[Growler]

Rii, i think it may be more polished since you last played it, might be worth updating and having a look? I so far have been impressed

[Retardobot]

Ah yeah, I'll give it another hoon, just like your mum.

Love having a PS3 again. Back in the world of JRPGs <3.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Does anyone else remember when betas were betas, and demos were demos?

I remember.

Now Betas are demos, and demos don't exist.

And shareware is a distant joyful memory.

[Emrico1]

So I go away for a few days, come back and some kind of chilli implosion like the opposite of the Pakistani meal I had the other day happened.

Probably too late but;

[Codex]

Watch out you'll get reported

[Chilli]

Rico wanna jam!?

srsly man just shhh. Im trying to keep my head low but certain cretins just haul me back up.

[Xenolightning]

Downloading now. Will return with findings.

[Pyromanik]

Watch out you'll get reported

Huh?

[Chilli]

Too late Pyro youre reported !
All that dwarf porn downloading is crippling snaps fibre network

[SteddieEddie]

So I go away for a few days, come back and some kind of chilli implosion like the opposite of the Pakistani meal I had the other day happened.

Probably too late but;

[Spork]

Got my new SSD working, no idea what the problem was, but I randomly reset the CMOS (for the third time since installing the SSD) and it just started working.

EDIT: Is the new SimCity going to fail hard? It seems a lot of people are wanting to hate on it, or at least just continue hating on EA (rightly so) but if it is a fun game I will enjoy the shit out of it no matter what.

[The Demon Lord]

So I go away for a few days, come back and some kind of chilli implosion like the opposite of the Pakistani meal I had the other day happened.

Probably too late but;

Shit is he using Marching sticks on an ordinary kit?

Way to fuck your cymbals, heads and rims m8

[Codex]

Got my new SSD working, no idea what the problem was, but I randomly reset the CMOS (for the third time since installing the SSD) and it just started working.

EDIT: Is the new SimCity going to fail hard? It seems a lot of people are wanting to hate on it, or at least just continue hating on EA (rightly so) but if it is a fun game I will enjoy the shit out of it no matter what.

 
The new simcity is fun, feels quite unpolished though and the city size is ridiculously tiny

I'll get it still so guess that helps? lol

I got given a beta key out of the blue from ea, had an email yesterday, not sure how as I didn't exactly sign up for anything at all o_o;

[mycoolcar]

Fuckers. I signed up for the beta but no key

[Spork]

Fuckers. I signed up for the beta but no key

Same.

Good to hear that you liked the beta though Codesex.

I've heard that the city sizes are way too small, hopefully that is something they will fix up, probably release as a $500 DLC.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8227867/Social-oldies-mean-Facebook-loses-its-cool

Good work NZ!

[Spork]

Oh Shiiiiii, turns out I did get a Simcity beta invite, but due to my PC being down until this morning I haven't even checked my emails.

Funny how it is taking much longer to install than it did to download. x.x

[Pyromanik]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8227867/Social-oldies-mean-Facebook-loses-its-cool

Good work NZ!

Ha. Experts at work eh.

That's been the trend for the last 4 years world wide.

[Codex]

Oh Shiiiiii, turns out I did get a Simcity beta invite, but due to my PC being down until this morning I haven't even checked my emails.

Funny how it is taking much longer to install than it did to download. x.x

 
The download is only a few hundred megs, it extracts into quite a few gigs...

I was quite amazed by it actually o-o

[Pyromanik]

Shit is he using Marching sticks on an ordinary kit?

Way to fuck your cymbals, heads and rims m8

I believe they're called drumsticks.
One uses them to... play drums.

[Spork]

The download is only a few hundred megs, it extracts into quite a few gigs...

I was quite amazed by it actually o-o

I was quite amazed how fast Origin's servers are, maxing out at the best speeds I've seen on my PC.

Pretty damn fun game, can't do much with just an hour, but it's a good preview. Unfortunate that the full release is 2 months away.

[Pyromanik]

I bought Sim City 4 in the Christmas Steam sale.

20 mins of play time later I went and bought sc2k from gog.com.

So disappoint.

[Spork]

I bought Sim City 4 in the Christmas Steam sale.

0 seconds of play time later I went and played other games.

I think I played it when it first came out, when ever that was, but I've heard it is much better after being modded.

[Pyromanik]

I felt foolish afterward.
I'd probably not think it so bad if I gave it a chance, but it's one of those things you gotta be in the mood for and stuff. It's certainly not a quick filler like just about every other game I've played (and enjoyed) recently.