Originally posted by Coda
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But 1 thing SC did do was release a completed update. Players were not asked to beta the game - there were beta players but they had to go through a process to get there and they got other perks as well. SC, for all there faults, also released fixes to bugs very quickly (within a day or 2, to the best of my recollection).
Having considered things a bit more, I've come around to the conclusion that participating in a closed beta and helping to debug the game gives us some skin in the game. There's been a lot of careful work and attention to detail to point out flaws and bugs. Some of the still outstanding bugs have been around since the beginning of the closed beta and I've reached the point where I'm not so sure anymore if they are in fact bugs or are changes to the game mechanics that we should just get used to.
Bottom line, if you're going to use your player base to help develop your finished product, reciprocation in the form of answering questions promptly or even extending certain benefits for testing purposes (gems to speed progress along in the beta) is not unreasonable for players to ask for.
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