Closing Alpha

[Elwood (DayZ) 8]

What are peoples thoughts on closing the alpha? Seeing that it just hit 200,000 people the other day I would say we have a pretty good test group. Rocket himself is quoted in numerous articles saying the increase of people makes development slower...always having to put out fires and what not instead of core development.

Thoughts?

[Lukio (DayZ) 24]

Closing the alpha happens when its ready for beta status, not dependent on the user base. From what I understood there are still several things that Rocket would like to implement and it'll probably stay an alpha until 90% of these things are part of DayZ.

[zak757 146]

Will there be a period in which we can't play as the alpha closes? I hope so, I have exams to study for! I'm okay with a little DayZ downtime.

I waited 11 years for another Mechwarrior game. MWO finally comes out with a beta, and I find out DayZ and start playing that instead. Addictive much?

[Latros 1]

# of users does not really make any difference.... yes it can help to narrow issues/concerns but 99% of the players have 0 interest in the "development" of the mod or Alpha/beta etc... they want to play their "Zombie survival game" not find bugs or assist in development.

[Abuuse 0]

I think he means making it not-public

[5P4RK4 (DayZ) 50]

Considering its probably the only reason anyone would buy arma right now.. good luck with that.

[Elwood (DayZ) 8]

I think he means making it not-public

Yes, because really we're all testers. Closing alpha to the 200,000 who already made it will allow for a solid testing group to work out the major kinks.

Most games are closed alpha and sometimes open beta but usually even beta is closed.