No Need For Public Beta
Just about the whole Call of Duty community has been speculating over when or indeed if there will be a public Multiplayer beta for Modern Warfare 2. Today Activision told CVG at Gamescom that there will be NO beta!
CVG – “Activision has told CVG at Gamescom that there’ll be be no multiplayer beta for Modern Warfare 2. You may remember that the first MW game had a huge open beta test that you could say was a massive success in bringing people round to Call Of Duty’s multiplayer options. But it looks like there’s no need to do that this time round. The sequel will be big enough, thanks.”
After the fans on Infinity Ward’s forum got wind of the no beta news the community manager cleared up the beta speculation once and for all.
402 – “I wanted to clarify the supposed “news” coming out of GameCom this morning regarding no MW2 Beta.”
“First, nothing has technically changed by this news. As I’ve told you many times in the past, expect no Public Beta unless we announce otherwise. That is still the case. We would never say something as definitive as “No Beta Ever!” as that’s simply not how we work. We’ll do an internal beta, if we feel a public one is needed, we’ll explore that route as well.”
“It is true that we have not announced a Public Beta for MW2, and that remains true unless I announce otherwise.”
“However, while no Public Beta is currently announced we do plan on running an extensive Closed Beta among Infinity Ward, Activision, and possibly 1st party partners worldwide. The internal beta will allow us all the benefits of a public beta test without the impact it takes on the time required to prep, distribute, & manage a public beta during this crucial time in development.”
“Remember, Multiplayer has been in development since Day 1 of working on Modern Warfare 2, and this is the essential run up to launch when we’re playing everyday, hammering away on it to make sure it’s as polished as can be by launch. As always, our internal QA team has daily multiplayer tests in addition to company-wide nightly MP tests we hold from the moment MP is in a running state throughout development.”
“Once the internal beta is completed, if for any reason we feel we didn’t receive the feedback, address the issues, or have the result we expect. We would consider pushing forward with a public one, however at this point only an internal Closed Beta is planned.”
“That said, any fears that no Public Beta will result in any quality loss in the final multiplayer game is completely unfounded; Multiplayer has always been and will always remain a major focus for the team at Infinity Ward and we would never ship a product we didn’t feel lived up to the high standards we hold ourselves to.”
“While we love public betas for all the obvious reasons, an internal Closed Beta allows us the extra freedom and flexibility to give the entire multiplayer a chance to be widely beta tested without requiring excess development time simply to prep the game for public release instead of an internal beta test which is ran on dev kits / test kits. That fact alone, allows us to have a smoother and faster process of iteration when addressing issues and pushing fixes out to beta participants.”
“This decision allows us to deliver a more polished experience, which in the end, is what we all want.”
“We’ll be filming plenty of Multiplayer videos for you to get a glimpse of new perks, features, killstreak rewards, and other additions you can look forward to in Modern Warfare 2’s Multiplayer.”
“In addition to the official multiplayer videos and features we release, we’ll be doing more and more multiplayer press from now until launch so you can get your fill of intel before jumping online day 1.”
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What the f**k?!
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i understand why their not gonna have one, but i WANT one sooo bad!! i mean their just gonna take what was good about CoD4 and what sucked about WaW (which was basically everything) and use that data. This games gonna be huge and i cant wait!
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does this mean there will be no free downloadable game before the real game comes out???
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admin Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
@Silent – Unless they release a demo, yes thats what it means!
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owned.
come on people. why do you think that there will be a beta test for this game? im pretty sure that since they are done making the game and has already started to produce copies, there would be no point of a multiplayer beta.
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everyone who ownes an xbox will want to buy cod mw2 if they send out the beta some people may not like and not buy so they lose money
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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HAHAHA!
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oh damn:( ah well…hey how come the new layout change? it looks completly dif now..
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if there isn’t even a closed beta then that is a stupid idea on infinity wards behalf. Me and the guys over at glitcher.net will be ripping this game apart for its glitches. We did a good job on the cod4 beta which had some big bugs and cod5 was even more of a success (for us anyways)
Look forward to some game destroying big glitches they won’t patch for a while
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admin Reply:
August 20th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
@Smiffy – They are doing a closed beta. Thats the reason there is no public beta.
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Will there be a private beta or the people who reserved the game?
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admin Reply:
August 21st, 2009 at 2:15 am
Infinity Ward are doing a closed (private) beta for Modern Warfare 2.
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that bull they is going to be a beta
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ahh mennn !! i wanna pawn noobys b4 the game comes out =/
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