Hey everyone, quick update on what's happening next Monday, November 22, 2010. All times are Pacific Standard Time, which is where Los Angeles, California is.
At 9am, I'll be marking all beta registrations to receive their invite codes later in the day. Any beta registrations that come in after 9am will have to wait for our week 3 release on December 6th.
We'll be rolling out some changes to the live beta site and verifying that the code works as intended and doing lots of internal testing.
In the afternoon, when we feel the code base is tested enough, we'll send a newsletter to all users who registered for the beta, even after the 9am cutoff. This newsletter will explain more about what we've been working on, what's in the new release, that sort of thing.
Once that newsletter is sent, I'll work on getting invite codes sent out to everyone who registered before 9am that day, and those users can begin helping with what we'll be calling our "open beta." The Email you'll receive with your invite code will explain what we need from you as beta testers.
It's important to note up front that several things will seem "missing" from the site, such as the forums, leaving comments, rating the games, that sort of thing. Some user profile settings may be available, but as we've already explained, changes you make on beta may get overwritten if you change your AG2 profile later.
The full details of what's going in the beta release, and what major pieces of the site are still missing will be detailed in the newsletter.
Other than questions of "what's in the release" or "what's missing from the release", are there any questions about the process or what will be happening next Monday?
That and your point values are just there until the newer versions of Beta come out. I'm not even sure what the achievements you can get are. A hint though would be looking to the right of the home page to see you can get game achievements......
[quote=Cormyn]... all 5 of you.[/quote] [quote=Freakenstein]That's either a good thing, or there aren't very many people interested in beta testing haha[/quote]
Well, we weren't ever expecting tens of thousands of beta sign-ups, and the number of registrations has tapered off quite a bit. We also aren't continuously marketing it around the site, or we'd have way more people checking it out.
I confirmed with our mail delivery company that we're having trouble sending to Yahoo ... I see maybe 60-ish Emails queued up for yahoo.com accounts as well as a few verizon.net accounts. Hopefully we can get those out quickly.
