4 years ago
Player Council
What precisely is the "Player Council" mentioned on the Technical Playtest page? Is it related to the Game Changers Program? More importantly, what does the selection process look like?
@TickTack121Statistics matter when making decisions. Having data that supports or refutes a stance is helpful when deciding on a course of action, such as how to deploy signed NDA playtesting.
Open Beta versions are the closest to live version of the game EA DICE will test and as such, any bug fixes would be expected to be small… not 6-8 week fixes. That level of issue would delay launch dates and be a HUGE deal. Not that such an issue is not possible, just extremely unlikely.
Again, this development, testing, and deployment model is pretty standard across all software development… so I am not sure what you feel is rubbish here.
At the end of the day, participating in an alpha, and especially a beta is only for stress testing, bug fixing and for game balance. The design decisions are already done at this point and very little will change from that point of view. What would be nice to happen, but won't, is to be asked opinions BEFORE the game is basically done.