Excellent news for lovers and sand, spice, and/or worms: Dune: Awakening’s beta weekend, which began immediately and can run till Could 12, is now open to anybody who preordered the survival MMO.
It is also mildly perplexing information as a result of, y’know… why weren’t gamers who preordered the $50 recreation on Steam mechanically included within the beta weekend within the first place?
“Everybody who has pre-ordered Dune: Awakening can now additionally entry the Beta Weekend!” Funcom introduced on social media a number of hours after the beta went stay.
“We heard your suggestions on this. In the event you already personal or determine to pre-order any of the editions this weekend, it is best to now additionally see a Beta Weekend product in your Steam library.”
There have been other ways to acquire one of many “tens of 1000’s” of Dune: Awakening beta keys Funcom launched within the run-up to the weekend, however I discovered it a bit unusual that preorderers weren’t assured one. Even individuals who shelled out for the sport forward of launch needed to hope for some luck in a giveaway to play this weekend, despite the fact that beta entry is a fairly frequent reward for getting prematurely.
Regardless of the reasoning, Funcom ultimately discovered it wasn’t an important concept to disclaim its greatest followers entry to the weekend beta and have set issues proper.
After all, the turnaround raises one other situation: lots of people who preordered Dune: Awakening and wound up with a beta key by a giveaway have already claimed it—which is a little bit of a waste as a result of that giveaway key may have gone to a participant who hadn’t preordered.
This is not an enormous catastrophe or something, but it surely does really feel unnecessarily sloppy, particularly since simply yesterday Funcom stated “This isn’t our first rodeo” in relation to launching MMOs and survival video games. That assertion was in reference to server stability, however this beta weekend situation appears like a little bit of a stumble proper out of the gate.
