LEGO Universe Beta sign-ups open now [News]
After my multi-post rant about new technology last week, you shouldn’t be surprised that I’m still skeptical about LEGO Universe.
Ochre Jelly disagrees, and I think he generally knows what he’s talking about, so I suppose I’ll pass on the news that Beta sign-ups are now open.
Have fun!
February 10th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Andrew, you only don’t like LU because it wasn’t written in Flash! :D
February 11th, 2010 at 4:55 am
I’ve had an invitation to the LU alpha sitting unused for months… does that make me a bad person?
February 11th, 2010 at 5:04 am
@Dan I had one of those too. I tried to use mine, but since I haven’t upgraded to Vista, LU wouldn’t run on my computer.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:29 am
And some of us use Macs which are not supported at this time.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:55 am
The game was awesome even in its alpha state.
February 11th, 2010 at 7:25 am
The Alpha was very stable, although they tended to schedule very limited play testing windows, clearly to force everyone on at the same time to allow ‘load testing’ of the system (that’s my theory!). It also required Admin privleges just to run the game, which in this day and age seems kinda stupid.
The only downside of the Beta program, is that everyone’s game profiles from the Alpha are going to be erased, so we’ll have to start over, boo hoo!
@josh: I’m surprised to hear it required Vista (although I did not try to install it on XP). Dude, are you still using Windows 3.1?! :D
@tedward: parallels!
February 11th, 2010 at 7:36 am
I installed it on XP and on Vista and it worked fine for both.
February 11th, 2010 at 7:44 am
no Mac version, no interest XD
February 11th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
@Ochre Jelly – Haven’t even upgraded to 3.1 yet! :D
No, I’m running XP. Their documentation said there might be issues with XP and I can’t get it to run.
February 11th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
What no MAC version!
That ripping sound you hear is me being torn between my loyalty to LEGO and my loyalty to MAC.
February 11th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
^ This is software, not real LEGO — thus my personal ambivalence.
February 12th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Agreed Andrew – i’m not much of a gamer either. So much as I’d like to experience living in a LEGO world – i’ll wait until the MAC version comes out.
February 12th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
@josh: Don’t worry, I just discovered you can still make that upgrade! http://technologizer.com/2010/02/10/silicon-valleys-island-of-misfit-tech/2
February 12th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
@aussielegocollector: Oh, I’m actually a fairly hardcore gamer. ;-)