This thread discusses the Content article: SAGA Open BETA Finishes With A Bang

Today, the developers of SAGA, the Fantasy Themed MMORTS Beta featured here before, announced that the open BETA is to finish with a CLOSED BETA session following - citing control of content before release.Many of the Beta testers comments and requests have been implemented and many will be brought to the server for the first time during this period.

"We appreciate all of the feedback and assistance all of our fans have provided us during the past months; many of the new features being implemented during this stage are a direct result of player submissions. In appreciation, any player that logs in with a registered account between today and next Tuesday October 30th will be among the first group of players to be let into closed beta to experience the new content first hand."

Along with this are various inducements over booster packs culminating in a Night of Nation Burning with additional packs being handed out to encourage PvP and stress the server and code on the 30th October. Following this the servers will shut down for a week in the build up to the Closed BETA test.

A quick breakdown of the Closed Beta expectations was supplied, unusually enough - congrats to the dev team for a smooth transition it seems. We hope it goes well.

CLOSED BETA PREVIEW

New Art: Almost all of the art and terrain has been completely redone. Trees that sway in the wind, shaders that allow for beautifully rendered scenes and new buildings add to a completely immersive environment.

New Chat: The chat system has been overhauled to allow players to more easily communicate with each other and their friends. A friends list and new tabs will make it much easier to keep track of your friends and guild mates.

Tournament System: Automated tournaments will be spawned as needed to allow players to compete for booster packs and other prizes.

Quest Lines: Hundreds of quests are being implemented that will tell the story of the Saga Universe while allowing players to progress through quest lines that will culminate in epic boss encounters.

New Items: What good are epic boss encounters without the possibility of epic loot drops?

Many other visual and game play improvements that include floating combat text and more exciting reasons for fighting other nations.

so they had open beta and now they will close it to work on it some more? Sound like things got way out of hand and they had to close it. What is the real story behind Segas doing this?

The news source said they were adding content they didnt want discussed - I'd assume they didnt want the Open Beta T&C for the content they had been holding back on. Closed Beta will require a new signing of T&C and these will probably be tighter.

Just an assumption here you understand from the wording of the newsletter.

Do T&C's work? Arn't they are ­base­d on the fact that if you include the people into a "special secret group" they will talk about it more? Hense they get free word of the moth advertising (the best kind) ...

well i've been part of the game since alpha, havnt played much tho. but ya i get into the secret group!