Guess what I got in my email today :)

Nicest idea i heard today

I think this is a dangerous line of thought sir, I was not able to participate and if you come between me and my beta key I will kneecap you.
V/R
Noro

CCP,
any idea as to when beta keys will go out???
Even a, "in the next few weeks, or a few days" will do for an answer! The silence from you about this is very frustrating.

Here's my suspicion. One of the things that recently occured was the recent hiring of a new Chief Marketing Officer, David Reid. His job is to basically oversee the Dust 514 launch from here on out.

As a marketer, he's going to be fiercely picky about CCP's public image, how they communicate, what order things are rolled out in, and what announcements are made to which media outlets, etc.

You're right, the Dust 514 rollout is definitely one of the communication low points since we were spoiled by Crucible. I imagine though that if the new boss is settling it, he's put a temporary halt in plans till he can review them and put his own expertise to work at tweaking the strategy before signing off and moving ahead.

It's in his best interest to try to fire this up as soon as possible - especially now that its his fault if we get too pissed off in the mean time I imagine he'll want to make Hellmar happy and get this circus underway.

But yeah. WHERE ARE OUR BETA KEYS, CCP???

Some of you guys really make me chuckle at the elitism concerning PCs vs consoles. "I won't play it unless it's on the PC". Good stand. I guess that gives us people who don't have some really wacky ideas on FPSs and PCs a better chance to get a key. Thanks.

Personally, I played a FPS on PC once...it was an absolutely wretched experience, one that made me swear them off and has been a very easy vow to stick to. If Dust514 was on PC, I would have absolutely no interest in it. For me, a console controller is far more smooth than any keyboard/mouse combo, and there is no need to have a set-up that is overly complicated when it comes to an FPS. There is no need for more than 14-16 buttons anyways when it comes to FPSs. And if you are all about the graphics, then I can't help you. I don't buy games for graphics, I buy them for fun.

Although, I have to admit, Skyrim is absolutely gorgeous on my PS3...

[quote=Noah Wyse]The only thing I did not want to see in this game is happening - seems like mouse/keyboard will be allowed for the game, not only as a means of chat or something similar.

Now, I understand and fully support that mouse/keyboard combo is the best way to go when an FPS is concerned - but not necessarily so on PS3. As Killzone has shown, a joypad experience can be very satisfying and skill-demanding - NOT that it can measure up to the m/k combo in terms of precision as mentioned before - yet it does bear its own satisfaction upon use.

The question is - why put the game on a console, where 99% of people don't use the m/k combo, cutting down the very reason why you came to the said console - in order to present your game to a new community tens of millions of people strong. Seems rather like shooting yourself in the leg to walk better.

Unless this has been vague enough to be misinterpreted.

Per the article you linked it seems MPT has not yet begun and only internal CCP trials are taking place:

If MPT had started we would know about it. Even if there was no announcement, which there would be.

Someone on these forums would have spammed general discussion or this thread about it. NDA or no NDA someone would have blabbed by now.