How many of you have been here since beta?

Bacon_00 · Post by **Bacon_00** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:26 am

I'm curious as to how many people are still playing that played in beta.

I played in open beta, though I wasn't around during closed beta, which I know at least a few of you were. After the game went live, it took me a good 3 months before I bought it. At the time, I was like, what, 13? So $10 a month was a lot for me to play a game... I finally caved, though, heh heh. Saw it on the store shelf and I was like "Oooooh man..." and the rest is history =)

This game still holds the title of "game that most awed me" when I first played it. I remember, after only like 20 minutes of playing, I was thinking "Holy crap, this is the coolest thing ever..." and then subsequently tying up the phone lines for far too long (28.8 modem, lol!), driving my parents insane.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:43 am

open beta.

i remember when it went to AZ, I couldnt wait to buy a subscription. Got home, and realized that no-one knew what the hell they were doing. It was glorious pwnage over and over... then they started learning how to play...

i stopped playing when i moved, gave up my subscription. When i discovered FAZ, I was stoked. Started back in, and realized that I now sucked hardcore.

Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:57 am

Open Beta forced my parents to install a 2nd phone line. Purchased the retail a week or two after it came out. Played a lot, but never got into the forum-scene and as I said above, my parents were already paying $15 a month for me to play, so convincing them to pay another 10 never really worked. A couple years after realease a lightning strike forced us to replace about half the components in our computer, and the new on board graphics just didn't like alleg. So I took a year and a half hiatus until I went to college and got a new box.

Post by **Tigereye** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:47 am

Closed beta.

And on a side-note, over the weekend I was cleaning up boxes of old junk I had stored in the basement when I came across my Beta 1 CD!!!! I thought I threw it away long ago, but it turns out I stored it. Sweet!

I was always under the impression I was in the 2nd beta though. Maybe the first one was Beta 0?

--TE

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:27 am

Been here since beta, but not playing. I was following the development of Allegiance on a german portal (www.talkhouse.de) where they talked about the beta alot and made me want to play. I was in england at that time and only had access to a computer in the library... I finally joined the game in June/July 2000. I never paid for AZ though, there was no real reason for it.

Aoreias · Post by **Aoreias** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:35 am

Beta 2 here, my CD keeps getting misplaced and showing up months later though /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Post by **Thalgor** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:53 am

Beta 0. Still have the CD /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

Avalanche · Post by **Avalanche** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:30 am

I joined during the open beta and played untill it got too hostile (and frankly, wasn't fun any more). It was very nice to rediscover this game a few years back. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Open beta was what convinced my parents that flatrate ISDN was better than pay-per-byte ISDN...

I also remember working hard to have enough money to buy a new graphics card so I could see all the eyecandy... /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Post by **BlackViper** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:55 pm

Last closed BETA session. "Black_Viper_4"

Like TE, I cleaned up some files on a harddrive, where I found the email where "Das Paragon" merged with Black Shadow and gave me instructions on how to access the old BS website. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> That was November of '99

Post by **aem** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:08 pm

Open beta. I think I applied for closed but wasn't one of the lucky ones /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":sad:" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />