Incentives?
 

As a new player who joined p99 in nov, I cant afford the time to join the beta.

My main is low 50s and i generally have less than 1kpp to my name.

Any spare time cant be wasted on being a guinea pig. Quite frankly am being asked to work for nothing.

WOuld like to help out, but limited play time has to be spent on trying to move my main forward.

Theres no incentive for lowbie players to help out. SO imo dont complain about there being noone on beta. We just cant afford the time :(

SOme folk have to make life choices. As an adult that has a life, I cant spend all day doing free testing for someone elses project.

The devs get all the glory. To say they get nothingout of it is complete rubbish.

The incentive for everyone is the same: the expedited release of Velious.

In Velious, you too can pursue the glory.

Where did the staff complain that there wasn't enough people on beta?

Do people really think they are doing some type of service to the devs by playing here? I honestly doubt they care either way. If people don't feel like testing it will just take longer for it to go live.

tldr; you get nothing, good day sir.

first world problems

There's plenty of glory to go around.

Have you ever seen a pure developer/programmer recognize or thank the community that was built around their* code? It's rare. They are not politicians. They are just dudes who write machine language all day.

It sucks that people aren't exploring Beta. One reason is because the bosses/Gods aren't there. TOV/Mischief isn't in yet at all. Many of the regular zone quests (and kills) there now can be done fairly quickly. It took me a few weeks to do what I wanted.

One incentive is that you get to see mob and zone behavior before it's released.

To be honest playing the regular servers has its value too.

There's always someone that turns up and reminds us of something.

And hey, not everyone is some EQ savant that can pimp our classic ride.

Unless they play on Red. Then you have Azrael talking shit about them because something wasn't correct and got changed.