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Exclusive Invitation for an Xbox One Alpha Trial [Titanfall]
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SEGAvangelist
Member
Besides BF4? This is the first.
I keep getting the 2nd message.D=
This would be the first test of any sort for the Xbox One for the "public". To answer your question, they do alpha tests all the time on consoles, just only on dev net.
soccersamabu
Member
Only way to get in this is if you got the email, so if you signed up, that means you are not getting into this. IGN just did an update to the story.
BruiserBear
Banned
This is going to be a quick alpha test. My bet is in a few weeks, we see an actual beta, with far more people in it.
How does that even happen. I don't get how the text could change for some and not others. You got people signing up literally minutes after the invites were first sent (last night) with "weeks", then random folks (some even signing up barely today) saying "days".
Hah, this is so confusing. Going to just wait for a follow up email, and be ready for disappointment should it not happen. Seems to me the most important factor at this point is getting the NDA.
Dont feel bad, I never really get picked for the good shit, yeah the NDA
miDnIghtEr20C
Banned
Maybe the ones who say days didn't get the NDA sign up form. And in a couple days they'll get that invite.. since they didn't get an invite and invited themselves.
I don't know. Mine says weeks and I signed up pretty quick last night and got the NDA page.
I don't know. Mine says weeks and I signed up pretty quick last night and got the NDA page.
Uhmm I don't know who manages the twitter account at Respawn but they need to get their stuff together and stop contradicting themselves within mere minutes.
Edit: I don't know if I should laugh or cry reading their tweets.
Damn, people are raging out though. Totally fiending over this. I doubt the Alpha test will even be that great.
IOU a Beatn
Member
Post by one of the Respawn employees over on their official forums:
http://www.respawn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3668
http://www.respawn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3668
Hmm.. I didnt get the email, but did get the NDA when i signed up.
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Email probably just contained a generic link to the Sign Up, and probably doesn't matter as much as the NDA agreement does.
Yeah, I believe most people said the URL didn't appear to be unique in any way.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
KillerIsJed
Member
Can we just stop all this bullshit of calling things betas and alphas on consoles when they aren't?
Clearly this can't possibly be an Alpha this late in the games development. These are glorified demos and have been ever since the Halo 3 "beta". I'm sure this is the first wave of the demo being called an alpha and the second wave will be called the beta.
Also, people paying to get into "betas" is bullshit. If these were real betas, they would be free and encourage player feedback to help shape the game. Not "2 months before the game is released you can help us shape it..." righhhhhht....
Clearly this can't possibly be an Alpha this late in the games development. These are glorified demos and have been ever since the Halo 3 "beta". I'm sure this is the first wave of the demo being called an alpha and the second wave will be called the beta.
Also, people paying to get into "betas" is bullshit. If these were real betas, they would be free and encourage player feedback to help shape the game. Not "2 months before the game is released you can help us shape it..." righhhhhht....
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Well, it does seem like an alpha and they aren't calling it a beta. And there's no early access stuff here either.
Same. I don't think this was meant to spread as much as it did, hahaha.
Thing is, the original email they sent last night was so suspicious, I posted it to see if the damn thing was legit. (And as you can tell by the first page of this thread, many thought it was a phishing scam).
I think this would have been handled better if Respawn had just made an official announcement, and outlined exactly what it was. And then told people to expect an email coming (and they should have said that it will only work if you get the email - even if that was a lie lol). Or you know, they could have just made it so it only would work if you got the email.
I would assume it would be Abbie Heppe, the Community Manager for Respawn.
I guess we'll know in the next day or so if we got accepted into this officially.
https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/423932846177124352
https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/423932846177124352
Uhmm I don't know who manages the twitter account at Respawn but they need to get their stuff together and stop contradicting themselves within mere minutes.
Edit: I don't know if I should laugh or cry reading their tweets.
Look Mommy I'm famous.
I'm not even that mad, I just want to mess with them to show how their explanations make no sense.
lol at the first few pages of people screaming scam.
1. Just because an e-mail has a sub-domain on it does not mean it isn't official. anything.ea.com is still part of ea.com and controlled by EA.
2. Just because the e-mail says it is from ea.com does not mean it actually was, it could have been spoofed.
3. If the scam link goes to a legit website, then it isn't actually a scam. This should be obvious by hovering over the link and looking at the URL.
4. Your passwords do not automatically get stolen by clicking on a spam link, even if you did. Unless you start giving them information. At worst the site would try to install some malware.
1. Just because an e-mail has a sub-domain on it does not mean it isn't official. anything.ea.com is still part of ea.com and controlled by EA.
2. Just because the e-mail says it is from ea.com does not mean it actually was, it could have been spoofed.
3. If the scam link goes to a legit website, then it isn't actually a scam. This should be obvious by hovering over the link and looking at the URL.
4. Your passwords do not automatically get stolen by clicking on a spam link, even if you did. Unless you start giving them information. At worst the site would try to install some malware.
Well to be fair, I'm sort of to blame for some of this. I should have hovered over the link in the email and showed people. As far as the passwords being stolen, people thought it was a Phishing scam where it sends you to a fake EA/Origin log in page. Because in order to sign up for this, it requires you to log on to your origin account. But if someone was phishing, they could make a mirrored/fake EA site to log in (and that's how they would get the password).
That said, in a case like that, the URL would be fake once you got into the log in area. But to clarify, that is what people were thinking (not their password was stolen by simply clicking a link). But can't disagree with your post.
Oh ok, I thought someone just clicked it and instantly freaked out. Yes that is how a phishing scam would work.
Given that we didn't know about this Alpha it is fair to suspect, but I think people wanted to believe it was a scam b/c they were jealous of not getting in
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Oh ok, I thought someone just clicked it and instantly freaked out. Yes that is how a phishing scam would work.
Given that we didn't know about this Alpha it is fair to suspect, but I think people wanted to believe it was a scam b/c they were jealous of not getting in
There was also precedent set for this kind of thing. Was happening throughout last year.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/09/06/respawn-beware-of-titanfall-beta-scams.aspx
But you're right, it was nonsensical to jump the gun so soon.
"US only" is a bullshit practice in a global market.
regional limitation is idiotic
They're testing US servers specifically, the ones most likely to shit themselves on launch.
Oh ok, I thought someone just clicked it and instantly freaked out. Yes that is how a phishing scam would work.
Given that we didn't know about this Alpha it is fair to suspect, but I think people wanted to believe it was a scam b/c they were jealous of not getting in
My friend who clicked the link last night and registered was in horror as the GAF replies came in. He went into full on panic mode as all the posters said it was a scam, and changed all of his passwords. So funny in hindsight. He went from joy to terror in minutes .
I was so excited I made the thread, but also because I was suspicious of how the email looked. I guess in my excitement I probably could have included more info such as hovering over the email URL.
That's not why. Limiting regions aids the type of testing being done, there are good reasons for it. It's not to snub or ignore anyone. This is a very, very limited test of some specific internal things.
I wanna see the receipts. The difference between the number of xbox consoles in NA and Europe isn't that large.
Everything about TitanFall is beginning to scream *not nearly finished* , from limited Alpha tests 2 months from launch to the barren wasteland of information we actually have on the game.
Not sure where else to put this, but apparently Respawn helped shape MS's cloud efforts.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/69559/features...on-xbox-one-development-and-cloud-ai/?site=us
Each game instance is running on a dual core VM.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/69559/features...on-xbox-one-development-and-cloud-ai/?site=us
Each game instance is running on a dual core VM.
Iced_Eagle
Member
Interesting article!
At the end it states that Xbox Live Cloud Compute is utilized on all platforms, so it seems that MS isn't limiting Azure to being used only on Xbox One but is being used also on Xbox 360 and PC.
The 2 core VM that Azure has is considered the Medium VM. It is apparently a 2ghz AMD Opteron 4171 HE with 3gb of RAM. That was as of Feb of last year so they may be upgraded since then or the Thunderhead stuff may be completely different than the main Azure offerings. Gives an idea of what they have to work with though.
ModifiedDefaults
Banned
I love how GAF has the ability to make something out of nothing.
So I assume if we get into this Alpha test, we will be able to play with friends fellow/gaffers that also get in? I guess kind of a dumb question, given we dont know the extent of the test (what we will have access too). If so, I'll probably need to add some people to my friends list. It's pathetic, but I legit don't have a single person on my Xbox One friends list. Everyone I know went the PS4 route this time.
Homefront, Crysis 2, Battlefield Bad Company to name a few.