QW: Accounts and Statistics to be Reset

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Important blogpost for the Quake Wars beta testers
From: http://community.enemyterritory.com/index.php?q=node/113

badman's Beta Blog: Accounts and Statistics to be Reset


A multiplayer combat game like Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars requires a significant amount of backend infrastructure that has to be running at all times, including account registration and verification, user management, statistics collection, server registration and listings, and many more. One of the goals of the Public Beta is to test as many of these systems as possible and with the beta client update out of the way, we’re now ready to conduct a few stress-tests. We’ll be running two major tests in the coming days that will affect your account, so please take the time and read this blog update in its entirety.

The most important of these tests concerns the registration system. In order to tax it as much as possible and make sure it’s up to the task of handling the retail product, we are going to wipe the entire accounts database and have all of our beta testers re-create their in-game account. The process isn’t really all that complicated – let me walk you through it:

1. The accounts database is reset. Your in-game account will no longer work.
2. Start the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars beta client. On the login screen, select your account and click "Remove user". On the next screen, select "Remove local user" and click "Next". Confirm the action.
3. Retrieve your beta license key from FilePlanet. It can be found both in the email you were sent after signing up or the beta and under My Account -> Beta Keys Archive on the FilePlanet website.
4. Back in the beta client, go to “Create Userâ€￾ and select “Create new online accountâ€￾. Put in your account name along with your beta license key and click “Finishâ€￾.
5. That’s it! You’re all set and ready to dive back into the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars beta.

The wipe is currently scheduled for this coming Wednesday (August 22, 2007), at which point you will no longer be able to play unless you re-create your account in the manner described above. The statistics are also going to be reset that day.

The other test we’re running is currently taking place on a much smaller scale and concerns the statistics roll-back and restoration functionality. In the final game, we’ll be able to use this to combat statistics exploits, padding, and other unwanted activity. To make sure that rolling back and restoring statistics on a large scale is as seamless and robust a process as it can be, 5000 beta accounts have been randomly selected for this test and their owners have already been notified. Essentially, we’re be rolling back the statistics for those accounts by several hours, followed by returning them to their original, pre-rollback state. We’re taking great care during this process, but since this is still a beta, there is a chance that the statistics may be corrupted during the test.

We’d like to thank all of our beta testers for their contributions so far. I know we say this in every beta blog update, but it can’t be stressed enough. You guys have definitely had a positive impact on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and we hope you’ll continue to help us during these final few weeks of the ETQW Public Beta.

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I think this is great, it shows the developers care about the game. I have no problems with it.