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[Whatnow12012]

Also my friends Bioware is HUGE if you are wondering how they Do Each of their Games, Each Bioware Franchise has their own Deal, I assume their own Places, Studious, each housed in the Bioware HQ behind Closed Door & under Lock & Key.

 

Also would assume they have separated teams 1 for Main Games, 2nd Team for DLC Digital Content.

 

Other Teams

 

Sound, Music - Soundtrack

 

Art, Visuals, Mo-KAP Capture

 

Story & Writers

 

METTING ROOM, Sort of like a Big Round Table dissussing THE FUTURE

 

Probably Break Room, other cool Deals in the Bioware HQ,

 

 

I saw the Place is Huge like a big College Campus Don't know never saw it in Person.

[Whatnow12012]

Say not Saw sorry My Bad TYPO

[phantomrachie]

*snip*

 

1. Do we go to Bioware HQ in Canada

 

2. Would we have to pay for the Trip or is this all Furnished by Bioware HQ

 

3. How Long would we Be Beta Testing the DK System

 

4. Would we need to sign a NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

 

5. Would we get to meet the Big Wigs over Inquisition Laidaw & the other guys would be AWESOME

 

*snip*

 

1. The Keep is a Website. Why would you have to go anywhere to test it? I've beta tested a couple of games and you never need to go anywhere. You just get access to the client to download the game. In this case it's even easier, they just need to give beta testers access to the site.
2. There is no trip if you are a beta tester. I find the concept that there would be kinda weird.
3. You'd be beta testing the Keep until it is released.
4. Of course, you always do when you beta test. Otherwise information would be released before the devs wanted it to be and that info could end up being inaccurate. Part of the job of a beta tester is to provide feedback on the features of the Keep and based on that feedback the Keep will change.
5. No.

[blackdiamonds1]

whatnow2012.....is this guy for real....really....wow

[Stormy]

It is a website, all you would do is sign in, would not need to be physically present to do that. Not sure the specific studio doing Keep but I assume Edmonton where DAI is being developed mainly.

 

Not really no, just people (not bioware) talking about wanting an offline solution mostly.

 

C'est une blague. Un joke.  We're not actually going to show up at HQ, wherever it is, and demand to be let it.  It is a tongue-in-cheek plea for beta access.  Most of us do actually know how this works.

 

Peace.

[dutch_gamer]

Anyone who has beta tested a game before would know that you don't have to go anywhere to beta test a game. You aren't hired by Bioware to become an actual paid beta tester. Beta tests by the public are the vast majority of the time from your own home, if not all of the time (I have never seen a public beta test being at the company's HQ instead of at home).

 

3) There are beta periods with a particular test focus, so it is possible you will not be beta testing until the end of beta but only for the beta period you are invited into. It is probable Bioware, if you are only invited for one beta period will notify you of such in a beta invitation email.

[aaarcher86]

C'est une blague. Un joke.  We're not actually going to show up at HQ, wherever it is, and demand to be let it.  It is a tongue-in-cheek plea for beta access.  Most of us do actually know how this works.
 
Peace.

'Most of' us does not include this poster.

Read his last posts. That was a 100% serious, normal post from him.

[Whatnow12012]

Look, I never done BETA Testing, I was being serious, go ahead & make fun of me, don't care. I was just asking how the process works on BETA TESTING.

 

Never Done it, but I have been Asked to Test Several Games in the Past via Email Confirmation, but Never did cause I didn't know how or what a Beta Tester does.

 

Didn't know if I had to go there Physically or what kind of Process you go through to do BETA TESTING.

 

Now you can resume & make more fun of ME.

[AlanC9]

The Keep is a Website. Why would you have to go anywhere to test it? I've beta tested a couple of games and you never need to go anywhere. You just get access to the client to download the game. In this case it's even easier, they just need to give beta testers access to the site.

People probably get the wrong impression because Bio's been doing some DAI pre-alpha testing at various off-site locations.

[Elhanan]

@ Whatnow - Pls forgive the verbal jabs, as many appear to have forgotten what is to be new and fresh to the environs. Or what it is like to be Techless, like myself.

 

But as I have known a few others that have been blessed enough to have been able to visit with Bioware, been invited to test new products, or have even worked there in the past, it does seem to be the kind of place I would like to view when in Edmonton. That, and the mall. And to meet Nathan Fillion for a chat. Or a PnP game....

 

[Clockwork_Wings]

Will there be a mobile component? Like a phone app?

[Amy326]

Probably not, but I hope I am wrong.

[AlanC9]

They have said they want it to work on mobile devices, but all they need for that is competent Web design.

[aaarcher86]

I don't think they've mentioned if they'll have an actual app, but you'd be able to use it on your smart phone or tablet.

[Devtek]

I don't think they've mentioned if they'll have an actual app, but you'd be able to use it on your smart phone or tablet.

 

I am going to reply seriously here just so no one thinks I am being "funny"

 

From all we have heard the reasons against having a Keep application on consoles would apply for a mobile app as well (even more so since there are more mobile devices than consoles).  A website properly built, like Alan said above, would work fine on mobile devices or anything with a browser for that matter just like these forums...although it took me like 5 minutes to find out how to log in when on my phone :S Wouldn't need an app in this case.

[ElitePinecone]

Will there be a mobile component? Like a phone app?

 

Like other people have mentioned, the intention is to make the Keep website usable on phones and tablets. 

 

I think Fernando Melo might've specifically ruled out an app in one of the interviews, or at least said it wasn't something they were planning at that point.

[Shark17676]

@ Whatnow - Pls forgive the verbal jabs, as many appear to have forgotten what is to be new and fresh to the environs. Or what it is like to be Techless, like myself.

 

Personally speaking, when I was "new and fresh to the environs", I still had common sense and never made any fantastic assumptions.

[Elhanan]

Believe the previous poster was asking questions; not presuming information in reaching a conclusion. However, as assumption can also mean arrogance, some apparently have this well in hand even as seasoned vets....

 

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Believe the previous poster was asking questions; not presuming information in reaching a conclusion. However, as assumption can also mean arrogance, some apparently have this well in hand even as seasoned vets....

 

 

Indeed, and "seasoned vets" are the most susceptible to such presumption...

 

That said, I do believe that everything known to date about the Keep can be summarized as follows:

 

1. It'll be an on-line ("cloud-based") repository.

 

2. It'll be platform-agnostic, allowing free transfer of world-state settings between all.

 

3. It'll allow the player to specify ALL  the choices (that have any forward impact) from previous games, whether or not a) the player actually played those games; and b ) if so, whether or not those choices were, in fact, the ones the player made! 

 

4. It'll allow multiple  world-states to be maintained "on-file" (for all the "What if..." fans out there!)

 

5. It'll prevent incompatible world-states from occuring, (e.g. Alistair and Anora were married at the end of DAO, but Alistair is ruling solo in DA2.)

 

6. It will NOT be a stand-alone or in-game application (sorry, players without an internet connection, however many or few of you there are.)

 

7. Most controversially, it will NOT allow direct import of previous saves.  Besides the technical difficulties of implementing such a thing across platforms, the incompatibilities introduced with the flawed save/import mechanisms in the previous games, (see #4) make this impossible.

 

Anyone know  anything else?

[aaarcher86]

It should be out a month or so before release. It won't be just a check list.

That's about all I can think of.

[SomberXIII]

No beta test wave yet? I hate checking my inbox over and over again in the hope of getting an invite.

[aaarcher86]

Nope.  There's usually an anouncement on Twitter and people post it to this thread when a wave goes out.  I don't expect another one until after E3, personally.

[Justin Edmond]

Nope.  There's usually an anouncement on Twitter and people post it to this thread when a wave goes out.  I don't expect another one until after E3, personally.

 

Bingo on this; Fernando will announce any invite waves on Twitter generally.

[ElitePinecone]

 

3. It'll allow the player to specify ALL  the choices (that have any forward impact) from previous games

 

Just on this bit, because I think people could misinterpret it:

 

"All the choices that have any forward impact" doesn't necessarily include every single choice we ever made in Origins and DA2. Clearly not everything from the past two games is going to be important going forward, and not everything needs to be recorded in the world-state. If people are expecting thousands of choices down to the tiniest details, they might be disappointed in what the Keep is. 

 

From all accounts the 'granularity' of the choices will be significant, but I've already seen some comments from people who are expecting a level of detail that might not actually be in the final Keep. There'll be lots of minor decisions, but not everything.

[Amy326]

Just on this bit, because I think people could misinterpret it:

 

"All the choices that have any forward impact" doesn't necessarily include every single choice we ever made in Origins and DA2. Clearly not everything from the past two games is going to be important going forward, and not everything needs to be recorded in the world-state. If people are expecting thousands of choices down to the tiniest details, they might be disappointed in what the Keep is. 

 

From all accounts the 'granularity' of the choices will be significant, but I've already seen some comments from people who are expecting a level of detail that might not actually be in the final Keep. There'll be lots of minor decisions, but not everything.

I agree with this even though I am one of the people who really, really, hopes that there is a lot of detail.

 

Because I love the thought of my Inquisitor running into Feynriel in Tevinter because my Champion helped him master his Dreamer powers, and maybe run into Colin and his mother after my Warden saved him from the Desire demons possession.

 

Even though I admit this is unlikely and not realistic as there are more important choices to take into consideration, there is a small part of me that hopes.

 

Either way, we will all probably find out in August if they open the beta then(which I think they will).