You’ve based your assumption on what exactly?
It’s such a drag waiting. At least Elektron didn’t go through with their initial plan to charge $100US (yet)
Yep, Elektron doesn’t mind having their customers effectively beta test their RYTM mkii units out in the field, but OB is somehow invite only, top secret. For me the situation was too much, so I sold. With tons of gear out there to use, I saw no reason to wait my best years on OB.
can you calm down!?
there are plenty of reasons for not releasing parts of an environment like OB!
and for sure they will not be released if you do further claiming!
many of us in here have experienced months and even years of waiting periods, as elektron user you get used to, sadly but …
so be patient elektronaut!
they will come and they will be successfull 
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Its called QA. It must be done. And because of that you must be patient.
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all this says is for beta testers to keep discussions of the beta in this forum, so as to keep it organized in one place. says nothing about discussing features or functionality of the beta with non beta testers outside of the OB2B category.
that’s how i read it. otherwise @davemech would have been penalized for posting a video. /hello
Do you have to be in a special “CLCK” to beta test Elektron software? Applied myself but heard nada lol
This isn’t the “closed Overbridge 2.0 Beta category” tho, is it?
Dave asked in advance if he could do a video. I said they REQUESTED - not demanded - to keep discussions regarding the beta in the closed thread. We weren’t forced to sign an NDA.
According to davemech and other testers, it works fine. So seems QA is already done for the driver.
Why not release it to people that have been patient for one and a half years already? Why only let small group use it?
Many individuals in this thread have given you plausible explanations for this. If those explainatuons don’t appease your questioning, I’d suggest emailing elektron through their official site and asking them directly.
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I asked Elektron because it was not on the intake form for the closed beta.
Not really. You said that it’s because Mac people would get angry if Windows users get working driver first - let’s face it, that is just silly.
Other people like davemech have mostly resorted to just saying ”it is what it is” - Sazi commented ”how the hell should we know”. That’s not very plausible in my opinion…
Also, Elektron reads this forum too so I shouldn’t need to mail them I guess. They can comment directly in this thread.
No Dave said it will be released as a whole.
I told you because they are still working out windows bugs AND they don’t want to alienate their Mac user base. It’s not silly to not want to alienate the Mac user base as over bridge applications were 75% for Mac. I’m on windows, yet somehow I’m grasps this concept.
Others have provided plausible explanations through the many times you have as this as well but you read, respond, and quote quite selectively.
Many times through many threads by elektron employees it has been stated this forum is not the official path to communication with elektron. If you are choosing not to use official channels for obtaining an explanation, that is ultimately your choice.
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Thats whats known a beta testing. Sure it werks fine. Let it werk fine for a couple weeks to be sure that no unseen bugs pop up…QA.
When we finish a game we will QA for 3 months.
Even if all looks good, even STILL bugs can slip through.
I liken this to the anxious press from those to have the DT sooner…it came with bugs and then there were complaints about that.
Theres no winning with impatients.
(Read up on QA practices)
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So as a seasoned professional, how long should people need to be patient in your opinion? It’s been two years soon. Is it okay to complain after five years?
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Not completely true, I’m experiencing issues with it, I’m not sure if i’m aloud to say but experiencing distortion and glitches with the latest driver so I think it will help if elektron is dealing with a small number with these kind of issues to start with , I understand every ones frustration so I’m not even going to go into the be patient blah blah , all I can say is its coming real soon (be patient haaaa) 
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Seriously, contact elektron support directly If you actually want to know why they can’t release just the driver. If you aren’t just trolling, it would get an official answer that you could share here. Honestly, I’m sure some people would like an answer to it. Emailing elektron directly is the likeliest way to get that answer.
Now that sounds more like what I expected as a reason for the delay. That also sounds just like my issues with OB1. If it does that, then it should certainly not be released…
HA…thats a loaded question.
Just depends on the project. But there was a game that was QA-ed for three years, code being started from scratch 3 times. While another was a three month QA cycle, no option on release date. The second went out with a lot of ‘known bugs’ but deemed low level.
Just depends on companies’ practice and what they are comfortable releasing to the public.
I suggest trying to be patient and hope for the best.
Thats all i got for you my friend.
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recent projects ive been on have had QA for their entire length (3yrs + ) , at the end its 100’s of people in multiple time zones , pretty much the entire team fixing things (again 100’s) , and we close down changes over the end phase and slowly lock out various teams (art , characters , vfx) to enable to engine/code teams to nail down the hard to fix things and properly analyse the game to pin point optimisations.
eventually we may enforce that every code fix is double checked by another coder , and specific repro steps are undertaken by specialist QA to ensure the changes hasnt broken something unexpected.
and it’ll still have a day zero patch , day 15 patch being worked on as soon as its gone gold (the version that goes on the dvd)… this is across multiple formats , especially hard on pc .
and the forums go ballistic if they find an issue as they have no idea whats already going on , and they are entitled to as theyve spent money buying it.
would anyone expect a game to get released once the front end is ready ? , while the rest of it is unfinished ?
when massively multiplayer games have an open beta , its probably because its already had many many months of a QA team playing on it , its very hard to QA a project that needs people to log in across the world and test the servers…
an individual bug may only be found when the game has been running for 18 hours , on a particular area of the game , specific platform with 75% of the pickups … to recreate that AND then check if the fix has worked takes a long time.
it wont get released until its ready , and even then likely to have issues.complaining on a forum wont speed that up .
I hope many principles from doing QA on games is being done on this , many are pretty standard for QA but i dont know the scale involved , it certainly isnt going to be similar to any big AAA console title which has many millions of $$$ involved. QA happens on pretty much everything , can you imagine something that has critical safety involved too ?
time to chill out people. a few people on a forum saying its ok is not ELEKTRON saying its ok to release . I could say its fine , i have no problems either , I’m not even on the test list , I have no clue.
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