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Bungie posts, pulls signup survey for secret beta

by Mike Schramm on Mar 10th 2011 8:15AM

Ah, the perils of trying to do "secret" beta testing. A few Bungie.net members got an email this week asking them to join in on a Bungie beta tester signup survey, but when they headed over to the actual survey link on Bungie.net, all they got was an error message saying the survey was suspended due to "technical difficulties."

Presumably Bungie will get the survey up and running later, though they'll possibly send the invitation out to less "talky" members of their community -- this is supposed to be a secret, after all. In other news: Bungie conducts secret survey! Could it be about that new MMO? Oh, wait -- never mind.

[Thanks, Ed!]

Source: Bungie.net

Tags: bungie, bungie-net, game, link, microsoft, secret, survey, unannounced

Reader Comments (19)

Was upset when I clicked the link in my email the other day.

Was all excited when I saw it then got the message.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

I did the survey. It was basically just about what games you play, how often you play them, and what kind of gameplay features you like in the games you play.

I got this email, not sure what it means.
Hoping they'll resend it when it's up and running again?
Update us when it works?
(L)

Having taken the survey, they were having technical difficulties: namely, each page was extremely slow to load.

I go it too, got my hopes up for nuthin' :(

I got this message and literally opened it and clicked the link in 2 seconds. Nothing. =/

I got that email and was able to do the full survey as well as submit it. I guess I was just really quick to do it?

I didn't have any problems with the survey. It was just questions about what type of games you play, why you play them.. blah. blah. bah. I'm exited about what happens next, though.

I bet they're just beta testing the survey, that would be hilarious.

I think that they were dishing out the survey emails in waves, so if you managed to complete the survey, you were in one of the first batches.

I got it and the survey worked for me. I did it a few days ago though. It just asks you what kind of games you like and which games you play the most of.

I got it and went to the link within 4 minutes of getting the email and thought maybe it was because it filled up so quick. Glad to know they just pulled it.

Not really that secret when they announce it in their weekly update...

I was a sad panda when I clicked the link and saw nothing. I didn't read the e-mail, and all I really saw was "you're in the beta! Click here to confirm!" (which is not what the e-mail says at all, but I had just woken up).

Oh well, I'm sure the next Bungie game will have the same public beta as always.

This is not a secret. They've been recruiting beta testers for months. There's a link about it on the Bungie homepage. In last weeks update, urk said they sent out over 100,000 invites to community members.

Got this the other night after I got my email.

Still the game is an MMO of some form.

I got the email, and did the survey.

Surprisingly, I had no problems whatsoever. I expected it to flake out half way through, but no.

It was pretty straight forward. And TBH, it felt more like a marketing/demographics survey than actual beta sign-up.

Favourite question asked: "Are you a game developer?"

Mine worked when I did the survey, It was pretty much just a bunch of demographic questions.

I got a non-working link from Bungie, too. Or maybe it was just spam in disguise; maybe from one of those dodgy porn sites...

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