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Suicide Junkie said:
I totally think they should have let the fanatics buy it early online, and do the full retail push once it had been patched up.
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That would be a nice compromise between a premature release and a public beta - the premature release is very buggy, but a public beta would be difficult to manage by such a small company. The fanatics would easily work together (as they've done for years on the forum) to avoid repeats and submit more intelligent bug reports, allowing Aaron to scrutinize a larger portion of them. SJ has an excellent point here - the fanatics can be used not only as modders and beta testers, but also as an elite squad of beta testers to focus Aaron's attention just prior to the full release. The only drawback I see here is that you're putting a lot of power into fewer hands, which carries its own concerns (not that any of the fanatics on this forum would intentionally abuse such a power, but speaking from the age old argument that absolute power corrupts absolutely).
Hopefully Aaron will tap into this unrealized potential for SEVI.
*lightbulb* I better get my post count up!!!!