不朽之王 2008-10-27 10:24
玩家总结：获取暗黑3测试key的可能途径
bn论坛上有人问了这个问题，有个人总结了blizzard之前放出测试key的步骤，很有代表性
翻过来，让大家也参考一下
原文：[url=http://forums.battle.net/thread.html;jsessionid=2B321B2C0D2DB1246510618E0A4D46EA.app23_04?topicId=11829577072&sid=3000]http://forums.battle.net/thread.html;jsessionid=2B321B2C0D2DB1246510618E0A4D46EA.app23_04?topicId=11829577072&sid=3000[/url]
[b]Blizzard beta in the past worked like this:[/b]
Prior to a month or six months to release date, they launch a closed beta that might last a week or two.
After that time they end the closed beta and open the public beta,starting to randomly select waves of 1000+ emails (people whoregistered in a specific page they launch for the beta). And every weekor so they random select more and more in order to flood the serversand test the machines to see if it can hold the population withoutcrashing.
At the end, pretty much everyone ends up playing, unless the game getsa huge following. It all depends on the demand and particular game inquestion. There are also the people who participated on the BlizzCon,maybe these people can get instant Beta keys in their emails.
The full adventure, from closed to public beta can last for as long asBlizzard need to last. Sometimes a month, other times five or moremonths like WOW did.
暴雪的测试过去一般都是这么运作的：
在发布期的前一个或六个月，他们会先发布一个封测版，持续一到两个星期
之后他们停止发布封测版，并开始发布一个公测版，开始随机的抽取1000+个email（在一个为测试版发布而特制的网站上注册的玩家）。然后每个星期他们会随机抽取越来越多的人进入这个服务器，来测试它的负荷能力。
最后，大部分情况下服务器就关闭了，除非有什么大的改动。这一切都取决于需求和一些特别的问题。然后还会有一些人参加暴雪的嘉年华，这些人也会有可能在email里得到他们的测试key。
从封测到公测这段过程持续多久取决于暴雪的需要，有可能有一个月，也有可能5、6个月，就像wow那样。