Location test
The location test is the best form of the beta test to open a developing game carried out in an arcade game to the public mainly, and to perform for adjustment, debugging, a marketing research of the harvest, the game balance of the opinion of the user.
The opinion which put "a location" and "the tests" of the examination for a setting place, the setting store of the game apparatus for duties together in business-specific terminology is common. It is often abbreviated "a location test" to "a location test".
When it is aimed for a marketing research, I call in particular it "an income test" and may distribute it. In addition, there is not a problem, or "a network test" to confirm it is often performed for behavior when I connected it to the network because system boards in late years to be connected to the network, and to operate increased.
Form
A play rate is necessary like an existing game to use open arcade facilities unlike beta test, the trial version in the online games such as PCs. Because it is under development, the exclusive version product that a limit was established in a character and the stage is often offered in the location test. Specifications are largely changed at the time of operation for product depending on the result of the location test, and a necessary judgment including the development cancellation of the game is added when the result of income and the player questionnaire is dull.
It is custom I limit a store, a period, and to carry out and is generally performed in several stores of the shop (CLUB SEGA or TAITO STATION) of the maker in the Tokyo's 23 wards and the metropolis including Osaka in Japan. The shop to usually use for a location test in the case of the maker which does not have a shop is decided and is often carried out in a large store located in the downtown.
When it is at the opportunity when I become able to play a high game of the completeness at the time of the operation more, and, in particular, the questionnaire to a participant is performed at the same time to be the opportunity when I can play the latest game before the operation quickly for the gamer by giving the opinion to a balance adjustment part, it may be said with the opportunity when there is few it to be able to say a thing to the maker about a product before the release directly and participates in a location test as a core gamer positively. But is inclined to excessive consideration to place tile and ability of the class of enthusiasts and an opinion, the request by the positively large number of player giving advice to, and cannot play it in the players of the standard ability directly; may be balanced. I let you mistake it if popular with the makers which you were testing by playing a game considered to be a failure at the stage of the location test by many players many times on purpose, and raising the amount of income income, and "the location test crushing" such as aiming was a part, and it was performed once by the person concerned of the competitor which got information and some enthusiasts of the hell that I let I let you release it formally and caused damage with sale dullness, and a sales strategy be out of order [1].
As stated above, a lot of gamers often gather, and there is the person lining up before the opening of a store of amusement facilities in front of a store. Therefore I forbid lining up before designation time at many stores (to be a nuisance to neighborhood facilities and the inhabitants). In addition, there is the place deciding play order by the number of the rearranging ticket. The rearranging ticket is one or two, 3 in the order that formed a line, too…と is distributed store and lot and is divided into the place assigned to.
The information about the location test enforcement was not published on a large scale very much, and rather it was common once I concealed information from the possibility that "location test crushing" was performed like fear and the above which had their technique stolen by the rival maker, and to perform a location test accidentally. Therefore gamers who wanted to participate in a location test changed the information of a schedule or the enforcement place between gamer companions. However, in late years I call rather many players together and earn the play number of times, and cases performing the prior notice of the location test at official site or formula Twitter of the game maker for the purpose of the PR effects in making it letting "you smash a location test" and neutralize an act, and detecting more bugs, an announcement event positively increase. In this case, about the prevention of information leakage of the technical outflow and screen, correspondence such as prohibiting the photography of monitoring and a screen and the housing by a maker employee and the store staff around the body of location tests is common.
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Footnote
- It is p.38 ^ separate volume 876, Takarajima "game arcade" "strongest handbook" (2003)
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