Tienen planeado que el 30 de noviembre termine el Alpha y pase a Beta, cuando eso ocurra se llevara a cabo el wipe, se podrá empezar con el alquiler de servidores y los strongholds. Es bastante interesante.
First - I went through like 10 pages of 'Are we in beta?' 'Whens beta?', 'We're in alpha', 'no we're in beta', etc ad nauseam, so I went and sat down with Sergey. After some thorough discussion I want to clarify some things:
- We're currently in Alpha
- The game is open, so that anyone can purchase and play
- That being said, we are still in the process of testing and you are our test (pretty hard to beat a 200k test team)
- Alpha is over when we're happy with the current state of the game (balance, performance, features, etc).
Given our current workload, we're planning on ending Alpha on November 30th, at which point the wipe will take place.
For information regarding the wipe, please see my other thread here: aqui
At this time, following the wipe, servers will become available for rental. Now, this includes both FULL and STRONGHOLD servers.
Right now we're also investigating a number of other topics, with Hackers right near the top of the list. I assure you we are quite aware of the hacking that's out there, and our insanely talented code/community team is tackling each issue as soon as it arises. That being said, I encourage everyone to continue reporting hacking when its spotted, as all the info we can get helps.
We're also talking about: an offensive name filter, skill trees, server list sorting, new characters/animations (a few are very nearly done), and possible server hopping solutions. I've had a number of great suggestions from you all already, but I wanted to officially let you know that YES we know its a problem, and YES we are discussing solutions. For the things I've just listed however I can't give specifics, but know that its next on my list to have answers for.
So, I'm sure I don't need to ask but I'd like to hear your thoughts on the November 30th end date to Alpha, and corresponding wipe.
Thanks for reading, and I'll see you in game!