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?
A few ways to tell when the cut-off is, and our progress through the beta release, you can subscribe to my twitter feed.
The cut-off for registrations to get into the beta tomorrow is 9am California time. That's 12pm noon here on the web site, so if you see the time on forum posts getting closer to noon, that's how you need.
To be safe, just sign up right now at http://beta.armorgames.com
3/4 of them are ghosts accounts or quitted accounts or something. Not many of those are active right now.
You really think that 3/4's of the user list is a ghost account?! A lot probably are, yes, but that much?! 0_o Nah... couldn't be!
A lot of people are inactive nowadays (or less active than others), that's probably why we don't see a lot of the users come by! Plus, a lot of users don't visit the forae, they only play and rate games!
And congratulations in advance for your birthday tomorrow! =)
