>We’ve had to make the difficult decision to limit our beta to the U.S. only, because of regulatory hurdles. This was not our original plan, and it means we can’t collect beta feedback from Steam customers world-wide, which is pretty unfortunate. All things considered, we’re sure it was the right decision, because the alternative was to delay the whole beta beyond the point when we’d be able to incorporate any feedback into the 2014 products.
For those outside the US who were hoping to participate.
That was the number it showed when it ended and that is the number of worldwide participants. Your odds will now be significantly higher at the expense of my odds plummeting to zero :(
Sounds about right. A delay would have hurt everybody. Of course I would have loved to get my hands on this in Europe but I'd rather they can release on time. That just means the US folks have to do all the work testing this and giving frequent feedback.
It's not like there is functionality that would require worldwide test data is there? Steam is the same all over the world. It's not like the XBone where 90% of it's features only work in the US.
This seems like something they should have been able to foresee. I mean granted it is literally being told you didn't win a lotto for something other than extremely small odds not going in your favour, but they had everyone fill out forms giving over data.
For those outside the US who were hoping to participate.