What happens to the Alpha and Beta testers now?

[HiFlyer 9,362]

2 minutes ago, Farlis said:

So what? Alpha is over. What are they going to do if you break it? Kick you out of the testing team? Withold compensation? 😉

In the last day or so we were given a final warning about nda. Something about Microsoft coming to houses and kicking peoples butts......

[RudyB24 296]

lol, at the MSF forum there are some (ex)testers 'complaining' they miss their watermarks on the screen. They are even joking they'd pay $3,- to buy them as DLC. :)

[FilbertFlies 980]

42 minutes ago, mtr75 said:

From what I've seen of their videos on YT, they will all go back to playing Grand Theft Auto.

Ere, steady on! None of what you've seen on YT is from alpha/beta testers, it was from 'influencers' who were given a special copy to stream. The NDA prohibited sharing of any videos from the alpha or beta versions to which the testers had access.

[RobotRock 118]

There was no alpha or beta for the new Flight Simulator.

I know there wasn't, because if there were, I surely would have been invited...

[n4gix 4,947]

28 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Because every other beta I've ever been on gave one? 🤔

After gifting all of the "influencers" with all that horribly expensive swag, there wasn't enough left in the budget to reward the diligent Alpha/Beta testers.

[Chock 17,769]

1 hour ago, jlund said:

What happens to the Alpha and Beta testers now

They have to learn how to fly aeroplanes when not on the external view.

[bean_sprout 1,201]

1 hour ago, ckyliu said:

They are tossed in to the fires of hell to burn for all eternity 🔥

I would think that they would suffer in purgatory for a time.

Regards

bs

[virtualstuff 759]

1 hour ago, Chock said:

They have to learn how to fly aeroplanes when not on the external view.

Tell that the RW guys 🤣

[JRBarrett 3,079]

Now that the work of assimilating the rest of the flight sim world is complete, the testers will return to the cube, enter their regeneration alcoves, and reconnect with the rest of the collective.

[Superdelphinus 718]

We had to change our identity and promise to live a life of complete isolation for ever more. Shame. 

[jcmissionary 6]

Just now, Superdelphinus said:

We had to change our identity and promise to live a life of complete isolation for ever more. Shame. 

[LHookins 3,103]

3 hours ago, bonchie said:

We are being sent to the gallows at midnight tonight.

Gee, I hope no one gets offended by "gallows humor." 😄 

I was hoping for at least a Mushroom badge or award in the sim.  You know... "Kept in the dark and fed nothing but..." 😄

Hook

 

[virtualstuff 759]

33 minutes ago, LHookins said:

Gee, I hope no one gets offended by "gallows humor." 😄 

I was hoping for at least a Mushroom badge or award in the sim.  You know... "Kept in the dark and fed nothing but..." 😄

Hook

 

Well maybe at least a surprise 🤣🙃

[LHookins 3,103]

7 minutes ago, awf said:

Well maybe at least a surprise 🤣🙃

The big surprise is... THERE'S NO SURPRISE!  Surprise! 😄 

Hook

[FlyingInACessna 656]

4 hours ago, Farlis said:

So let me get this straight... In this form of game development Alpha testers work for free and in the end do not even get a free copy of the release candidate?

Way to go...

 

“Work for free” hahahah

More like “play the game a year early for free” and continue to ask for more while the rest of us sat here for a year in anticipation lol