Before we launched Closed Beta on August 26, we didn’t really know what to expect. Will the players like the game or not? Will we find out about some serious technical issues, will we be overwhelmed by bugs. Well, we made ready for the worse and it didn’t come.
We have distributed about 550 Beta keys and are currently working with about 400 players. We’re having some pretty amazing results. Of course, we’re having bugs reported, but that is why we run the Beta. So far, we have created about 260 tickets from our players’ feedback and are working hard to address them. The most important thing is, however, we’re getting a lot of positive feedback about the new gameplay elements and the feel of the game in general. Players really enjoy the AI element of the game, the visuals and are curious and insightful about the gameplay. We would like our players to send us more feedback though.
Funny thing is: from the 400 players who got the Beta Key a significant percent probably didn’t read the accompanying email. We have suggested that players should found their cities in or around Czech republic to concentrate the action to one particular spot. This should’ve simulated a part of the full map after the game is played by 5,000+ users. Although the Czech Republic and surrounding countries are sufficiently densely populated, some players decided to be on their own for some reason. Like live on Shetlands, Iceland, Spain or Scandinavia. Well, at least the Czech Republic has no free city left :-)
There are some pretty strong alliances and we’re hoping we’d be seeing first attack on a GSA base. We think that a few alliances could easily unite to destroy one.
Stay tuned as we’re currently evaluating the possibility of sending more Beta keys with hopes of getting some more active players to test Infinitum: Battle for Europe.
