EPTBeta to restart July 1st - Page 9
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On June 27 2010 01:14 Bibdy wrote: Almost every patch to SC2 has been on a Thursday or Friday, so its not that bizarre. Patches are different than the entire server coming up for what is, in part, a stress test. It'd be stupid to do that on a Thursday. And no, not almost every patch has been on a Thursday or Friday. They've been on random days throughout the week. | ||
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jamesr12
United States1549 Posts
On June 27 2010 01:13 ondik wrote: so SC2B should be available in PC Bangs in just few hours, right? don't think so. I'm pretty sure its 27th french time so 28th korean time. So another day or so | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On June 27 2010 01:26 Stratos_speAr wrote: Patches are different than the entire server coming up for what is, in part, a stress test. It'd be stupid to do that on a Thursday. And no, not almost every patch has been on a Thursday or Friday. They've been on random days throughout the week. Isn't patch day an equally big stress test?  Server down. Server up. BOOM, everyone logs on.Patch 1 - 02/25 = Thursday Patch 2 - 02/26 = Friday Patch 3 - 03/04 = Thursday Patch 4 - 03/05 = Friday Patch 5 - 03/12 = Friday Patch 6 - 03/25 = Thursday Patch 7 - 03/30 = Tuesday Patch 8 - 04/07 = Wednesday Patch 9 - 04/22 = Thursday Patch 10 - 04/26 = Monday Patch 11 - 05/06 = Thursday Patch 12 - 05/13 = Thursday Patch 12.1 - 05/17 = Monday Patch 13 - 05/20 = Thursday Patch 14 - 06/01 = Tuesday Patch 15 - 06/03 = Thursday So, 10 out of 15 were on a Thursday or Friday. They're not adverse to doing upgrades later in the week. Besides, its Beta, why WOULDN'T they allow the system to get stress tested? | ||
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jamesr12
United States1549 Posts
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Jenslyn87
Denmark527 Posts
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danl9rm
United States3111 Posts
On June 26 2010 20:09 Beyonder wrote: Psychology It's not that big of a deal. Some people hold an experiment, others just cover literature.Ohhhhh, now that you mention it, I remember a dorm-mate of mine having to do some kind of experiment or something at the end of his. I guess he was the only psych major I knew. I had just never heard of a bachelor thesis before. Writing papers is the worst! | ||
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mikado
Australia407 Posts
On June 27 2010 01:26 Stratos_speAr wrote: It'd be stupid to do that on a Thursday. Why? | ||
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SichuanPanda
Canada1542 Posts
Edit: They do it on Thursday/Friday because they know a lot of players don't play during the week, to get as accurate a stress test as possible it makes sense to do it on these days as for many people this is the end of their work week (some people work weekends and take Friday off). So having tests of this nature on such days usually means more players will be playing. | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On June 27 2010 02:37 SichuanPanda wrote: Hopefully this isn't a rumor. From a development point of view July 1st makes a lot of sense for Blizzard, they can run it for roughly 20 days, and then have a week after that before launch. Edit: They do it on Thursday/Friday because they know a lot of players don't play during the week, to get as accurate a stress test as possible it makes sense to do it on these days as for many people this is the end of their work week (some people work weekends and take Friday off). So having tests of this nature on such days usually means more players will be playing. Or do it the 28th and have more time to test and more room to fix major problems the first week. I still think that'd be the more logical choice. | ||
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Jenslyn87
Denmark527 Posts
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Zhek
Canada342 Posts
On June 27 2010 02:42 Jenslyn87 wrote: Do you guys know if the beta will run up until right before the game is released, or if there will be, say, a week without any possibility for gaming? The beta will stop 2 weeks before release. Or something like that. | ||
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jamesr12
United States1549 Posts
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Jenslyn87
Denmark527 Posts
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mnck
Denmark1518 Posts
I'm sure they're eager to start the second phase as soon as they can, once the technical difficulties have been sorted out. I don't think there are any reasons to delay anything, the more beta time they get, the better, I'm sure they feel like that. | ||
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
On June 27 2010 02:40 Stratos_speAr wrote: Or do it the 28th and have more time to test and more room to fix major problems the first week. I still think that'd be the more logical choice. No because they're not going to get a release stress test on a Monday like they would on a Thursday. | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On June 27 2010 03:02 Amber[LighT] wrote: No because they're not going to get a release stress test on a Monday like they would on a Thursday. Thursday isn't a Friday - it's still a really busy day. Not only that, they aren't testing for one day of stress, they're testing for a release-like situation. It makes the most sense so we can avoid something like what happened with patch 13 (I think that was the patch number). For all intents and purposes, that patch was a complete disaster, being released late in the week (a Thurday/Friday) and people couldn't play at all (getting random DC's/lockups consantly) for the better part of 4 days. They would be much more capable of fixing something like this during the week than over a weekend. | ||
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Ighox
Norway580 Posts
On June 27 2010 02:49 Jenslyn87 wrote: Zhek: I've never seen them say that... are you sure it will go down two weeks before release? They have never said that, they have just said that phase2 would run for around 2 weeks. Also, a lot of you guys in this thread are taking the numbers too seriously, they NEVER stated that it will run for exactly xx days or anything like that, they've just given out some rough estimates. For all intents and purposes, that patch was a complete disaster, being released late in the week (a Thurday/Friday) and people couldn't play at all (getting random DC's/lockups consantly) for the better part of 4 days. They would be much more capable of fixing something like this during the week than over a weekend. I hate to say it because this term gets thrown around too much, but it's beta. If anything they should open it up on a really busy day, on a time where people are most likely to break b.net completely, just so they get some more valuable data before the official launch. | ||
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ckw
United States1018 Posts
On June 27 2010 03:12 Ighox wrote: They have never said that, they have just said that phase2 would run for around 2 weeks. Also, a lot of you guys in this thread are taking the numbers too seriously, they NEVER stated that it will run for exactly xx days or anything like that, they've just given out some rough estimates. Exactly, it's a BETA test so you can't really put an exact timeline on it. If things go fine, sure but if otherwise they will have to keep it live longer in order to fix certain issues that may arise. | ||
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
I hate to say it because this term gets thrown around too much, but it's beta. If anything they should open it up on a really busy day, on a time where people are most likely to break b.net completely, just so they get some more valuable data before the official launch. Except you don't want that problem to linger - that just eats up valuable test time and turns days that people could have spent playing into wasted time. Sure, you want to see these problems, but you want to do it at a time when people will actually be there to fix these problems. | ||
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