What if the beta testers got a discount on SC2?

[Drake Clawfang]

Conversation with my dad the other night when I told him Beta was ending and I wouldn't need to use his PC anymore:

"So you need to buy the full game now right?"
"I will when it comes out."
"They should give you a free one just for testing for them."

I went silent as a million smartass replies went through my head.

"I got nothing for that. Actually I got too much for that and can't decide what to say."
"Well they should pay you for testing it for them."
"They did, they let me play the game before it comes out, that my payment."
"Well you should get a free copy anyway, aren't you a member of their board of representatives or something?"
"Huh?"
"You know, you write up stuff for them, go to the conventions for them or something."
"Years ago I did that stuff for a Blizzard fansite, what the hell would make you think I actually had a job with a large-scale video game company?"
"I dunno."

I voted no. As far as I'm concerned, being able to take part in the beta, test out the features of B.net 2.0 and play the game before it gets officially released is its own reward. Getting a discount for SC2 though wouldn't be a bad thing in itself. But it would either be ruthlessly exploited so too many people tried to take advantage of it, or it would be so complicated involving ID and Blizzard email alerts to stores that it wouldn't work properly and would be confusing.

So, no. Be a neat bonus, but nah. The simplest way would be if Blizzard emailed some sort of print-off coupon to the testers, but people would try to find a way to exploit it and mass-produce copies for friends.

[n00bonicPlague]

Woah, this actually turned out to be an interesting discussion.

Totally caught me off guard o_o

Thanks for the input, guys.

[Norfindel]

He! Then people wonders why Kotick can afford to be such an asshole

Do you want a cheaper game?
No, we don't deserve it!

Come on...

[Maxa]

He! Then people wonders why Kotick can afford to be such an asshole

Do you want a cheaper game?
No, we don't deserve it!

Come on...

Call it a more charitable reading of the OP's question; otherwise it's completely vacuous.

[TheEconomist]

I see that the time when man rolled up his sleeves and made his own way in the world is gone.

[SaharaDrac]

All I want is a portrait. That's all.

[Iceman_jkh]

Hell no. You volunteered. You wanted to do it. Your reward WAS the BETA. Not everyone who wanted to join could join.

ps. I partly blame you (BETA testers) for making this game so shit. j/k, that's really Blizzard's fault.

[mikill]

I agree with hell no for the discount. But i wish they handout maybe an achievement for helping beta test it but realistically no i don't think they'll do that.

[minerals]

Hell no. You volunteered. You wanted to do it. Your reward WAS the BETA. Not everyone who wanted to join could join.

ps. I partly blame you (BETA testers) for making this game so shit. j/k, that's really Blizzard's fault.

Actually near the end you could preorder the beta and get a key that way. or opt in like I did. If you wanted one you could have gotten one. Not to mention the 2 friend beta key passes.

I think the ps is way out of line. Blizzard has worked hard on this game and while some of the features are not there that we want over all its still going to be a GREAT game. Some of these programmers and balancers have to work pretty long hours during this crunch time, don't dishonor that by calling their game ****.

[KillaKhan]

It's blizzard. Most likely they'd do the opposite, and everyone who wasn't in the beta would have to pay a little more than the norm.

I bet they'll just give us some award or something saying we played in the beta.

This:

All I want is a portrait. That's all.