From The Club Penguin Wiki
Beta Testing was where people could sign up to help fix the bugs in the beta verion of Club Penguin and report them so Club Penguin could fix them. People who signed up are called Beta Testers. When Club Penguin was publicly launched, the team held a party to thank Beta Testers, in which the yellow and pink party hat was given out in the Town. Beta testers usually wear this hat as it shows that they are a beta tester. They are respected greatly in Club Penguin. Most beta testers have names like "fano" or "JaMeS" that have a mixture of lowercase and uppercase letters. Although, when Club Penguin launched the CPIP test server, the names were changed so "fano" is now "Fano" and "JaMeS" is now "James". However, on August 4th, 2009, Most beta testers' names have been restored, turning "Fano" into "fano", or "James" into "JaMeS". Today, these penguins are very rare as most have quit because they have either gotten too old or just got bored. Betas most likely have the Shamrock Pin because it was the first pin released on Club Penguin and was released a short time after Club Penguin was released.
List of Beta Testers
For an incomplete list of beta testers, see List of Beta Testers.
Trivia
- Penguins who participated in the Club Penguin Improvement Project testing are sometimes thought to be betas, but are not.
- When penguins share accounts, one penguin usually tricks the other by telling them they have a beta hat, but the actually mean the Red Construction Hat.
- Beta Testers are easily spotted on servers like Sleet and Mammoth. Many Beta watchers go there, and many rare penguins go there, too.
- The reason why Beta Testers are rare is because they are not seen very often - usually caused by them quitting.
- Most Beta Testers have no numbers in their Penguin name, since newer penguins usually have their desired user name already chosen, and therefore extend it with numbers to make it unique.
- Within an hour of the Beta being launched, the servers crashed and had to be reset. This occurred many more times in the future.
- After the Beta ended, testers were rewarded by receiving 1,000 coins, one month of paid membership, and also got to keep the Beta Party Hat.
- There are two new clothing items in the Series 6 Treasure Book that are name-wise and colour-wise related to Beta testing. They are called the Beta Hat Shirt and Beta Grid Sweater. Having these in possession does not mean you are a real beta tester, however many claim they are.
See also
| Versions of Club Penguin |
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| | Test Programs | | | | Penguin Chats | | | | Current Era | |
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