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<b>Message ID:</b> 5617 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Thu Aug 26 01:06:18 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> jhenders@xxxxx.xxx <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: End of Kiting? <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1786680656">On Wed, Aug 25/99, James Schuldes &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:jgs@...">jgs@...</a>&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; From: James Schuldes &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:jgs@...">jgs@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Can you say &quot;expansion pack&quot; ?? <br/>
&gt; <br/>
 </span></blockquote>According to quotes from Brad, the expansion pack only needed artists,<br/>
and not coders, as it&#39;s based on the same code that the main game runs.<br/>
He could have been lying I suppose.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Also - how long was the public beta - a year or more?  even with such a long<br/>
&gt; time you just don&#39;t know how it works when it gets played by 15 to 20,000<br/>
&gt; people every night.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Well P4 beta was a little over a month, but I think that was mainly<br/>
stress testing and final fix up testing. Even there, there are still<br/>
bugs many of us reported back in P4 in the game. The bard songs above<br/>
L20 weren&#39;t even in P4 on any vendor until the second last day of the<br/>
test.<br/>
<br/>
Betas before P4 were limited to about 350 people if I recall.<br/>
<br/>
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