PD -> RE: Showing a little love to the Beta testers (3/31/2011 0:06:38)
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Honestly, this is more of a question of entitlements. Let's take a situation that we'd know in Real life..... Labor Unions. Without their constant efforts that spanned more than 100 years (1911-Present), the workplace would have been a dangerous, dirty, and disgusting place. However, the situation is quite different now. Because of Labor unions asking for so many benefits (Like Health care, less work hours, higher wages, ect), people have found out that it's generally cheaper to re-locate work to a foreign country. If you've seen the tags "Made in China" on the products you use, you'd know what I mean here. Now I will apply that here. I believe asking for entitlements is indeed a dangerous game - Too little of it, and we'd be (Or at least feel) cheated. Too much of it, and we'd become spoiled, elitist brats. At this point, I think we should actually think of the future positive and negative questions of the entitlements we seek. I'll give two examples of this: 1. Giving all Beta Testers a specific, powerful set of items (Complete with Primary, Armor, Sidearm, Zooka and Bot) would no doubt create a problem with Power inflation, and therefore, would cause the staff to release ever more powerful items to compensate, further hurting balance and the future of the newer players. 2. Entitling all Alpha Testers with badges that ranks them above everyone else would cause the natural ranking to collapse: The Majority of the population is lowly ranked, while there would be an "elite group" of people with the highest ratings possible. However, if the curve was broken, the majority of people would have the highest rankings, with a minority with low ranks. This in turn would the team to make more stars and more ranks to try to restore the natural curve back, hence, why the 6 and 7 star ranks were even created in the first place. Now you see what the effects of being entitled special, powerful items does, I think we'd all need to reconsider what we should be asking for.
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