BlizzCast 13, the StarCraft II Beta special, has arrived. Chris Sigaty, lead producer of StarCraft II, and Dustin Browder, lead designer of StarCraft II talk about the beta process in general:
Rob Simpson: So, there's a public beta forum where testers can post feedback and suggestions so please take advantage of this opportunity to voice your opinions. Besides the public beta forum, you can also leave feedback in game using the Battle.net UI. Do you guys want to talk about the in game feedback function?
Chris Sigaty: Yeah, we're trying something new. It's actually not direct feedback, what we intend to do during the beta is put out survey information effectively that will get us directly some aggregate feedback. I talked a little bit about the numbers, we expect to see literally thousands and thousands of posts and the big stuff will bubble up through community, through our own reading, interfacing with the community, watching replays, that sort of thing. Our intention with the surveys is to be able to ask a simple question like which race are you having the most fun with? That's probably not a great example, but something specific about maybe the zerg. What are your favorite abilities on the zerg? We can look at what's being used by actually looking at stats, but that doesn't necessarily answer the question of what are you having the most fun with or which ones are you liking the most. The two may be directly correlated but may not. So we can get information a different way and this will hopefully allow us to get some aggregate information, more of a math answer than having to read through and say, “I think what I read was these...”
This is by far the lengthiest BlizzCast as far as StarCraft II material is concerned. Dustin and Chris also go into detail about the latest developments with StarCraft II's single player mode. Read the rest here.
Source:
Blizzard.com - BlizzCast #13
