I can say honestly and without shame that I only signed onto these forums because I heard about the Beta and its requirements. In this way, Bethesda has successfully advertised their forum to me, and they have also gathered lots of information from the sign-up process which will no doubt be used to shape their decisions at a later date. It's a clever way to get a large community response to what is essentially a questionnaire, and a clever way to get more forum members, whilst also getting people to iron out any final bugs in the DLC.
That's not to say that once the testers are chosen I'll leave and never return. Not at all; whilst I signed up for the beta, that doesn't mean that's the only thing I'll use this forum for. But I won't try and hide it either; I'm a scrounger, but an honest scrounger.
