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The Beta Team II

3 September 2002 - 12:00am — Christopher Wright

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PHIL: Now... Each of you will be asked to perform specific functions within the beta group.

KING: It's going to suck!

PHIL: Alex: you, Monk and Scott will be playing the game as "normals." Essentially, we just want you to create the characters and explore the world to see if we've implemented all the features we want to implement.

KING: It's going to suck!

PHIL: Mark will be our user interface guy -- he's going to test the way the user interacts with the game world, see whether or not the in-game controls make sense, that sort of thing.

KING: It's going to suck!

PHIL: And King is going to be the guy who hangs out in our public forums complaining about how the game is going to suck.

KING: It's going to suck!

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