Players Get 'Cherry Popping' Too Soon in Betas, Says Gears of War 2 Director

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  Yep. Betas are now a promotional tool and are rarely an actual useful part of development. Especially the... : Beady
  • Too true. How many game betas also come with access to a bug tracking system? : SinistarX
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  I agree with him too. I'm not interested in the COD5 mp beta as from what I hear it would make me never ... : hillemania
  • The beta of cod5 is good : Johnnsen
• I thought a beta was obviously going to be buggy? : Derringer
• UT3 is still in "beta demo" mode. UT3 has potential and I have been having fun playing but the server s... : Lightzout

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• wrong : dilutedq
• wrong : kpxkrnjc
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  gimmicks and uber graphics... pretty much sums up gears of war, doesn't it... and i'm not so sure about t... : brainchild420
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    Gears of War defines 3rd person tactical shooter. : kpxkrnjc
    • You are an excellent troll. : leaked
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      the tactical shooter genre is not new, and there is no great accomplishment in taking a tactical shooter ... : brainchild420
      • Since when did 'tacticle' mean crouching behind something? Gears of War was a fine game, didn't have m... : BobbySnake
      • I agree, I had some enjoyment out of it, but I "hit it and quit it" after finishing it the first time. ... : Derringer
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      LOL on the tactical shooter. : thejay247
      • indeed... : ShadowRam
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      Sorry. Rainbow Six did that many many years ago. : AxeMan808
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        Oh. "3rd person". Well, *that's* just mutually exclusive with "tactical shooter". : AxeMan808
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          By that logic, because you can go into 3rd person in the Mechwarrior series, it is also a tactical shoote... : Skyburst101
          • By that logic, you don't understand what the fuck mutually exclusive actually means. : Pulveri
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  He's not talking about "Demos" he's talking about "Betas" : two50six
  • And I'm talking about "Betas" with a passing mention to "Demos" because the effect is potentially the sam... : antareus
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  wrong.... i was in the alpha/beta for WoW... dont see me addicted to that game now. i got so fucking s... : -=kodiak=-
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    At least you made it to 20. I got to level 12, decided it was all a stupid grind, and uninstalled. I alre... : antareus
    • funny thing is, players playing wow these days have absolutely no fucking idea how much of a pain in the ... : -=kodiak=-
• The open beta (demo out before game) for BF1942 put that game on the map : krillin
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  I almost NEVER buy a game I beta tested, which is why I don't play betas anymore. : Edges
  • I have the exact same feeling. More often than not I am turned off by betas for a variety of reasons. Unl... : Sgt_Boomstick
• I see five or six "wrong" statements but nothing that contradicts what I said. Again, I said if the beta ... : antareus
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  He's not absolutely wrong. I tested (as in was paid to test) 'Disaster: Day of Crisis' for two weeks, 80 ... : abovedefault
  • Wow... that does suck. But at least, you got to play it , enjoy it and beat it. Now you are left with b... : monchipeters

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• Maybe he could "grow up" like J Allard, change his name to C Bleszinski, wear a bit more black leather, t... : slackshoe

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• that also happens when he's under a desk. : reznory
• Nah, I just think they're glad Mark Rein doesn't really say anything anymore. : GreatGooglyMoogly

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  The only tool is the mooch who thinks s/he is entitled to anything from gaming companies. : kpxkrnjc
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    Oh, no feelings of entitlement here, but when their competition is willing to give away a little bit of c... : CasbahBoy
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      LOL sorry but Treyarch's fail of duty 5 is not competition. : kpxkrnjc
      • fail of duty? did you come up with that yourself? or did you steal it from 4chan? : vertdang
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  It's cliffy B talk for "we don't want to lose sales by potentially turning people off the game before it'... : zooolander
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    ^^^^ ding ding ding... what do we have for em johnny? : brainchild420
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      a copy of Gears of War 2 for him to purchase with his own money! Available for his pickup at his local... : jackomack
      • I don't have a 360 :( Thanks for the offer all the same though! : zooolander
• wrong : dilutedq
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  Huh? Are you retarded? Epic has been one of the FEW companies that has given tons of shit away for free. ... : two50six
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    I've been a pretty big fan of Epic in the past myself but let's be serious here, that Epic died a few yea... : MovingTarget
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      Correct. The glory days of the UT2k4 Epic that many shackers constantly refer back to as the champions of... : Sgt_Boomstick
      • Sad, but true. The $1,000,000 mod making contest sponsered by Nvidia for UT2k4, the many bonus maps, the ... : Skyburst101

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• exactly like whats gonna happen to COD:WaW on PC. : hyperwired

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• I agree, sometimes a demo or beta can mislead the quality of the final product. And if one person ha... : monchipeters

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• Yeah what happened to that brash guy who said ridiculous things? Oh yeah. : jake2000

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  I think you've stumbled apon the crux of the matter here. Highly anticipated games probably suffer fro... : Fuzzwah
  • And he's crying about it because those players haven't parted with their cash. : antareus
• Same for me. I wasnt a fan of the first one but because of the beta of the 2nd, I bought it day one. I ev... : razlebol

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• Funny how that works in Blizzard's case. It can't possibly be because they make more original games (from... : antareus

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  He made a perfect analogy. If you don't like because you have some sort of allergy to vaginas you can dea... : Mad Jack McMad
  • this made me laugh, and its true! : Omega Blue
  • I feel I must add my agreement to the prior statement : kpxkrnjc
  • damn that's a gooder. : RogerDandy
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    It's not offensive to me that he spoke sexually explicit, but I do feel that using virginal sex in the co... : johemmer
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      Didn't he say they didn't want that to happen though, so isn't that the opposite of sexism, hes trying to... : SlingBlaze
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        At least SOMEONE read the article \o/ : kpxkrnjc
        • Shit, I was caught. : SlingBlaze
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        "Then you might not feel motivated" - so the motivation for both gaming and women is to make sure you pop... : johemmer
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          I think you need to look a little more closely at the analogy being made and stop taking everything in li... : kpxkrnjc
          • Also stop trying to find reasons to push your feminist propaganda. : kpxkrnjc
          • i guess you'll have to explain to me how the anology is not objectifying women by comparing them with a g... : johemmer
  • ahaha mad jack.. too funny.. : techx4
• I quite like his change of pace from traditional publicists. : Entity
• Well it's working well for him. He must have hired a great image consultant : spiderfill
• He's speaking a language his X360 fanbase will appreciate. : BorenKets123
• He knows how to speak to his audience, i'll give him that. : Pneum0
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  You would rather hear the same old generic rehearsed BS? You're probably one of those people that thinks ... : snot3353
  • and Jesus : kpxkrnjc
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  I prefer hearing people talk like they really talk instead of a well groomed press release. : Dynotaku
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    I met cliff once, his potty mouth didn't bother me at all, I'm not exactly one to talk. But come on, this... : node
    • fuckshitdamnassbastardbitch NO OFFENSE (???) : kpxkrnjc
• wrong : dilutedq
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  I love how all of you idiots need a Dane Cook wannabe nerd to give a sex analogy to feel "engaged" by a p... : heartsauce
  • That's what I meant. : RogerDandy
• He is just being sensational and using "cool" words like "fucked her" and "Cherry Popping" so we will thi... : IHATEDUST
• Wait you are an expert in this industry...why? You've obviously never heard of Paul Steed. : two50six
• he reminds me of Seth Green's character in the italian job, except uncool. : reznory
• I agree. Why the fuck would someone use those word in this situation? : razlebol

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• Same here; I rarely sign up for betas. The one I did sign up for was WoW's expansion and that's because I... : Entity
• You must have a lot of disposable income to buy everything thing blind like that. : TGammet
• Except when you buy a game without trying it and it sucks. I got Hellgate: London'd :( : Derringer

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• Me too wtf... : RogerDandy
• Must be a damn good day then. : menar003
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  I'm sure there are many men on shacknews who wish they had your problems. : Omega Blue
  • no ... cause it get's you chicks.... : RogerDandy

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• Yeah like with Doom. What ever happened to those id guys? : not work safe
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  GoW2 is short? : SlingBlaze
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    GoW2 isnt worth the trouble. Shooter games should be player on PCs, where they belong. : easeup
    • oh : armybob
    • . . . . . : jedi_27

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• you shoulda seen him in his early days of bunny suits and pimp clothes.. now THAT was trying to hard.. he... : techx4

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• A Gears of War 2 BETA would have been a hood rat, but instead they made you wait for a dime. Or is that ... : unjustend