February 6th, 2019
Q&A: Can you do a mass-key release of 50000 if Lord Simon allows it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtm6xIj-wM4&t=3333
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Jace
Dokugan Ryu asked, can we do a mass key release of 50,000 if Lord Simon allows it?
No, but this is a good quest like thing to lead into a lot of people saying, why don't you send out more alpha keys?
Why don't you just send it to everyone?
More people means more feedback, and that'll help.
And that's not all exactly true.
If we get too many people in, we will get more feedback, but there is such a thing as too much feedback.
And if we get too much feedback, then we will not be able to wade through the noise and try to find what's important and fix things.
So that's kind of why we limit the number to something that is always manageable for us, and we don't bite off more than we can chew.
The other reason is, and this is probably a bit too straightforward, but ultimately the alpha keys and the alpha is actually not for you, it's for us to develop the game.
So I know like a lot of people say, just been looking forward to the game, just give it to me, right?
It's like, but we're like, hang on, we need to get the right people that we want, the right amount and at the right time.
So sorry if that doesn't give everyone what they want, but we're doing what's best for us so that the game gets as good as it possibly can be.
And there's also the aspect of your first time experience,
Snutt
you
Jace
only get one of those.
So whenever we test stuff and we start adding new stuff, that will change the first time user experience.
So if we gave the keys to everybody, they would all experience the game at that point at the same time.
And then we wouldn't have the opportunity to address any of the issues that
Snutt
the first
Jace
time experience had.
Yes.
So that's also one big thing why you might hold off on testing on some people, so to speak.