EVE FanFest Attendees Get Early Entry to Dust 514 Beta

There's been no preferential treatment of the PlayStation community.

EVE FanFest attendees will receive early access to the Dust 514 Beta, according to CCP Games.

Confusion has surrounded who is currently playing the closed beta. So much so, Eve Online fans have complained at what they have perceived to be preferential treatment of the PlayStation community.

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Speaking to Eurogamer, CCP cleared things up. Lead game designer Kristoffer Touborg said, "We do have some PSN users in now. We had some Eve players ask, well, why are they getting first dibs on it?

"They're not people we've preferred because they're some marketing partner or something. The people we have in the game now are essentially volunteer testers. They're basically the first people PlayStation throws at a new product.

"We have our own group called Bug Hunters, which is 100 or so volunteers who do a lot of our groundwork on new stuff. This is basically PlayStation's equivalent of that. So the people we have in now aren't necessarily there because we wanted to give them a beta key first. These are the people PlayStation throws at new things to test before everyone else does.

"It's not a beta as much as, this is the first public thing and we sent the people who always break things at it first."

Touborg also added, "Eve players who we gave keys to at FanFest, they'll be the first people in the door."

It is expected that the beta will be joined by attendees of Eve FanFest shortly, with an open beta starting this summer.

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