We’ve been exceedingly grateful to those of you who participated in our MAG beta tests over the last several months and couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out.
Naturally, with the end of our beta cycle, comes the countdown to our final release on January 26, and what better way to start that countdown than to reveal the final, “official” box art that you’ll find in the United States and Canada. Have a gander!
Pretty sweet isn’t it? Yeah, we like it too.
Now that you know what to look for in the future, let’s go back to the past for a moment and talk about some interesting information we gathered over the last month.
- More than 42,000 matches were played over the course of the full public beta (August 17-December 5)
- During October’s beta period alone, nearly 534,000-plus miles (860 million meters) were traveled in-game by MAG players each week
During the final month of Beta 4 and 4.5 periods (November 9 – December 5):
- Of the 65,000+ players that logged on, 17,000 of them qualified for Squad Leader, 3500 people qualified for Platoon Leader, 1100 folks made it all the way to OIC, and 206 dedicated warriors made it all the way to the level 60 experience cap.
- Nearly 18 million kills were made and an excess of 700 million shots were fired.
- The Top 3 most played maps all belonged to the Sabotage mode. They were, in order, Syr Darya Uplink, Darien Network, and Copper Hills Relay.
- Of all PSN users who participated in the 4.0 and 4.5 betas, chennault2424 was the most prolific – he earned more than 250,000 XP!
Now, obviously we can’t talk about the MAG Beta without also acknowledging the dedication of our testers. There was a stadium-sized group of you that helped us identify and fix thousands of issues over the last few months, and each and every one of you deserves our thanks. But we’d also like to take this time to call out a few folks in particular that took their dedication to another level. In fact, some of you have been QA maniacs! Take our top reporter, brancher, for example. In just a matter of months, he personally recognized nearly 100 different problems! But brancher wasn’t the only champion of quality testing. The tireless efforts of folks like Yazton, AmethystVenom, Memran, Black0Panther, and JaredxD shouldn’t go unnoticed either – they were just as devoted. So again, a special thanks to the elite group above, and another appreciative nod to the rest of our testing crew as well.
And that’s it for our beta report! For more on MAG and what to expect when it hits shelves on January 26, keep checking back with the PlayStation Blog and Official MAG Blog in the coming days and weeks.
Want to talk about it? You can comment on this post by clicking this link.
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Official MAG Box Art and Beta Statistics
We’ve been exceedingly grateful to those of you who participated in our MAG beta tests over the last several months and couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out.
Naturally, with the end of our beta cycle, comes the countdown to our final release on January 26, and what better way to start that countdown than to reveal the final, “official” box art that you’ll find in the United States and Canada. Have a gander!
Pretty sweet isn’t it? Yeah, we like it too.
Now that you know what to look for in the future, let’s go back to the past for a moment and talk about some interesting information we gathered over the last month.
During the final month of Beta 4 and 4.5 periods (November 9 – December 5):
Now, obviously we can’t talk about the MAG Beta without also acknowledging the dedication of our testers. There was a stadium-sized group of you that helped us identify and fix thousands of issues over the last few months, and each and every one of you deserves our thanks. But we’d also like to take this time to call out a few folks in particular that took their dedication to another level. In fact, some of you have been QA maniacs! Take our top reporter, brancher, for example. In just a matter of months, he personally recognized nearly 100 different problems! But brancher wasn’t the only champion of quality testing. The tireless efforts of folks like Yazton, AmethystVenom, Memran, Black0Panther, and JaredxD shouldn’t go unnoticed either – they were just as devoted. So again, a special thanks to the elite group above, and another appreciative nod to the rest of our testing crew as well.
And that’s it for our beta report! For more on MAG and what to expect when it hits shelves on January 26, keep checking back with the PlayStation Blog and Official MAG Blog in the coming days and weeks.
Want to talk about it? You can comment on this post by clicking this link.