Playtesters (including beta signups and Founders) will get to play the initial third faction content tomorrow and through the next three weeks.
This playtest is not a marketing beta—it’s a closed playtest with the goal of actually improving the faction and other content.
Closed beta playtests under NDA are super common in gaming and tech. We didn’t invent them and much bigger companies than ours run large playtests under NDA.
I’d say that an NDA is a statement of trust.
It’s a mutual agreement that we, as a studio, are giving you access to content before it’s ready to be shared widely because we believe you can help make the game better. We are trusting you to playtest and not share your experience with the public. By agreeing to and respecting the NDA, our players are telling us that they are worthy of trust, respect our studio’s efforts, and agree to not leak things before they’re ready.
While leaks often happen, we trust our playtesters to do the right thing. Our playtester community has been awesome so far. Besides, I personally wouldn’t want to be permanently banned from a game community before that game even launched.
If you’re not a playtester, then the public reveal will come later. We’re still working on the game, so please give the devs time to do their thing. We’re aiming for the wider reveal to be after we’ve completed this initial third faction testing and we’ve had time to prepare something for the public—more on that reveal as we get closer to summer.
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