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BF Heroes Server Beta Key Deal

[Mar 14, 2009, 3:18 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Battlefield Heroes Website has details on how you can get 16 beta keys if you preorder a server from one of their partners, offering a unique opportunity to pay to beta test a free game. They do stress that this will not put anyone further back in the queue as they distribute beta keys, saying: "Don't worry, we will continue sending out Beta Keys to people who signed up using the Beta Key sign up form (in the order of signing up) at the same rate. In other words, this will not delay the sending, nor reduce the number of Beta keys sent to people who signed up."

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Re: BF Heroes Server Beta Key Deal

Mar 14, 2009, 22:04

Jason

All of the 'beta key' rubbish is entirely an exercise in artificial scarcity, and has nothing to do with improvement of the product. I find it amusing that they've both invented the artificial scarcity and then gone on to invent a paid method of getting around it, which also happens to invalidate the spin regarding the 'quality' hosting they were putting out only a week or two ago. Its only ever going to be an 'ok' game, half of the code and assets are cut-and-pasted out of a game many of us already own, and this whole process is textbook smoke and mirrors. The worst thing is the extensive beta makes the uninformed think that its probably unstable.

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