The First 999 Beta Tester Usernames
There are now 999 people registered in the Early-Access Beta.1 Here are their usernames:
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- Updated numbers to be clear: There are 13788 people signed up as of right now, 1081 registered (I invited more in after this post), 2430 invites total sent, for a 44% registration rate…I’m still inviting people in slowly until I get the lobby scalable. [↩]
Interesting that people have free choice of any name they want and you still get people putting numbers at the end of their handle. Must be the lasting effects of AOL.
fuzzyspo0n is my favorite.
I like omnomonsouls.
i want and i am not there :(
My friend said he was in the lobby alone the other day. I told him to spam in chat that he wanted to play a game with me, just to see if you did requests. XD
He can request via a PM in the beta forums.
I have to get a spy gamer in the forums then. My preferred username is still not used.
I’m derping pretty hard and not finding a forum link…. =/
The forums are private right now for current beta testers. I’ll open them up when I’ve invited everybody in and open up the beta.
Maaan I’d love to be on that list!
Hey, Notch is there too!
Son of a. Followed this for years and just found the beta registration yesterday, imagine my hype “Oh hey people got added!” to see “Nope”
Look ma! I’m on the internets!
Interestingly, “spy” is taken, but “sniper” is not :)
When you say, ‘registered’, are these 999 invites sent or 999 accepted and confirmed invites?
How
You’re up to, what? 15000 registered for the beta?
How many invites sent?
How many invites accepted and paid for?
Yeah, thanks, I updated the text at the top a bit and added a footnote to reflect that. It’s still running about 40% registration rate like I posted about previously, which I’m pretty happy with, especially given that most of these signups are over a year old!
Yeah, I’m in that list, even though life has made it very hard for me to find time to play, but I still paid my due.
You know, if you send an invite to me and my friend, you will get 100% registration rate for this sample.
It’s okay, Ron, I’m sure you’ll be back, and thanks! If all those people logged in at the same time the server would melt anyway. :)
Aww man, my registration is one year old. I’m dying here man, i’m DYING!
Yeah, so i missed the initial beta sign up and ended up signing up waaaaayyy late.
WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO, AWESOME GAME THAT I CAN’T PLAY? :p
I checked this site every day for a while, except the day beta registration started. So I’m probably around 5,000 back. At least I have Diablo III to keep me occupied for a while (though I still check my email way too often).
I have done worse. I heard about the beta sign-up the day the registration started. I went to the website and read the following: “please only sign up if you’re planning on paying for the Early-Access Beta when your email invite arrives”. I was not sure I wanted to pay $15, so I did not sign up. One year later, I decided to sign-up. And now, I learn that 7% of the people really bought the beta when invited! Why did I not sign-up?
Wait, no, ~40% buy it when invited. I haven’t invited all 13k people in yet. I’ll update the post to reflect that.
I definitely don’t want people signing up who aren’t sure they want to pay, I need to be able to predict how many people will pay when I send out invites for load balancing right now, so you did the right thing by not signing up when you weren’t sure.
Okay, I updated the footnote with the latest numbers.
Okay. I misunderstood. 40% is better.
Yeah, the 44% is almost right at my optimistic hope for 50%, so I’m happy about it.
Thanks.
The number of total invites sent out is is actually probably the most helpful to all of us waiting for an invite, since i think a lot of people have a vague estimate for where they are on the list (I’m guessing i’m probably at like 11k or something :( But now i know you’re about 25% of the way there, woo!)
Yeah, although I do 60% in-order and 40% random for every batch of invites, so that complicates estimation a bit.
Did not know that.
Don’t know whether to be happy that i have a chance at getting in sooner, or anxious cause i had already resigned myself to not getting in for a while, and now I’m gonna get my hopes up every time a new batch of invites goes up.
Any way i can convince you to replace your random number generator with one that is heavily biased towards selecting names that start with dem? :p
In the worst case, people in the 11k queue will get selected with an in-order invite after the next 80 batches.
Among 200 invites sent for each batch, there are 80 invites sent at random. Let us start numbering batches starting from 0 with the last batch (n=0). If we imagine people signing-up are negligible, at least until the 80th batch, the chance of being selected at random in the n-th batch knowing we have not been selected until the (n-1)-th batch (included) is: http://goo.gl/NNEAs
For the next batch (n=1), the chance to be selected at random is 0.4*200/(13788-2430-0.6*200), which is a bit more than 0.7%. For the other batches, refer to: http://i.imgur.com/0G36V.jpg
Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Just a correction of a mistake I made: this is the chance of being selected at random in a batch between the next batch (included) and the n-th batch (included), which is why the probability increases so fast.
The conditional probability is lower and increases slowly: http://goo.gl/KHDSy
Forget about what I wrote: the conditional probability is the numerator, the chance of being selected at random in the n-th batch *for the first time* is the product of the two factors, there is no division.
Let’s rather think about the game. I am going to bed.
Dang, just got the e-mail. I’ll be registering very quickly, just gotta put some cash in my account. Was excited as hell when I saw the e-mail though.
Just because I am curious, when you get an account, do you get to select a nickname?
yes
Hey there, is there any way to check if my beta sign up request is still active in some way? I signed up about 5 days after it opened. If I’m incorrect in assuming that I was fairly high up on the list, then it sounds like you’ve got a great fan base going and congratulations! Thanks for your time and best of luck with development.
If you try to sign up again and it says you’re already signed up, then you’re good. The in-order signups are still on the first day, sadly, so you’ve got a bit of a wait unless you get lucky and your random number is picked.
Thanks for the reply! My fingers are crossed and I look forward to getting a chance to play your game. It looks as if you’ve done a great job so far.
Just read that SpyParty is gonna be at EVO – that is super hype! Congrats to Checker for getting involved with that community; that is going to spread the word about this game like wildfire. Now I’m even more upset that I decided not to go this year.
Incidentally how many first-day signups were there? (Full disclosure: I’m one of them, 2011-05-10 19:03:04 haha)
More data that you may want: http://www.spyparty.com/2011/05/12/beta-data/