Comments on: LEGO Universe Beta sign-ups open now [News]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:29:35 +0000

@aussielegocollector: Oh, I’m actually a fairly hardcore gamer. ;-)

By: Ochre Jelly

Ochre Jelly — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:02:34 +0000

@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

By: aussielegocollector

aussielegocollector — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:18:39 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:09:14 +0000

^ This is software, not real LEGO — thus my personal ambivalence.

By: aussielegocollector

aussielegocollector — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:02:32 +0000

What no MAC version!
That ripping sound you hear is me being torn between my loyalty to LEGO and my loyalty to MAC.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:17:58 +0000

@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.

By: MV

MV — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:44:21 +0000

no Mac version, no interest XD

By: Jordan Bradford

Jordan Bradford — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:36:33 +0000

I installed it on XP and on Vista and it worked fine for both.

By: Ochre Jelly

Ochre Jelly — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:25:21 +0000

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!

By: Jordan Bradford

Jordan Bradford — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:55:16 +0000

The game was awesome even in its alpha state.

By: tedward

tedward — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:29:53 +0000

And some of us use Macs which are not supported at this time.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:04:52 +0000

@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.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:55:37 +0000

I’ve had an invitation to the LU alpha sitting unused for months… does that make me a bad person?

By: Ochre Jelly

Ochre Jelly — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:01:57 +0000

Andrew, you only don’t like LU because it wasn’t written in Flash! :D