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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VinylTap" data-source="post: 6106003" data-attributes="member: 6697217">I think you're coming into the play-test with incorrect assumptions as to how the Next design team is using these alphas and how they fit into the grand scheme of their overall ongoing play-testing practices. Their internal rules most likely look very different from the public play-tests. But the benefit of the internal playtests is you don't need to present them in the same semi-polished format, for several obvious reasons.  You believe that the playtest should be doing something that it was never even attempting to do, which is most likely where your frustrations stem from. Its a quick way for them to throw out a bunch of 'out of the box' ideas and get a ton of feedback on them. But you have to put those ideas into a sort of semi-playable frame of a game, so people can actually get real 'in-game' feedback on it. Now to keep their life sane, the designers throw a lot of 'placeholders' in there, both in names, and spells, because its not worth putting a ton of polish into these things, because you might be throwing them out the window in 2 weeks (because they generated a ton of bad feedback). But if you don't get the idea out there for people to play with (remember theory-gaming on forums isn't the best way to look at these things, from a research stand-point) you don't get the solid feedback you need. Now, I have no problem with people going 'OK, this probably won't work for this this and/or this reason' or 'I think the game would be better if they presented the information in such-and-such form'. But what seems to be happening is people are using these play tests (and i'm not trying to single out you, or be confrontational) as an excuse to derail these threads into talking about how 'NEXT IS DOOMED TO FAILURE '. Now, people have the right to express those feelings, I just don't think these threads are the place for it. Ultimately, posts like this are very far off topic, but people don't always see it like that. There are a few 'NEXT IS DOOMED TO FAILURE" threads already thriving in this forum, I wish people would keep that topic where it belongs.</blockquote>

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