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| Username | nutha  |
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| Joined | February 18, 2005 |
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Somewhere in, MN, United States |
| Last Visit | July 5, 2008 |
| Post Count | 31 |
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- Open Beta
When MMORPGs first came out there was not that great of an interest in them and open betas were open to the public just to get the game tested. Over the last 10 years the MMORPG crowd has dramatically grown in size and it's not hard to find people to beta test your products.
It's totally up to the developer who they want to invite into open beta, there is nothing that says it has to be fair and that each person should have an equal chance to get in.
Open Beta has been used for marketing as well, to get people in to see how it works and get excited about it. Now with how marketing is ran and website/fansites for games they don't need to market their games nearly as much.
Open Beta is quickly becoming a thing of the past, Soon I think there will be closed beta to the select few fanbois and friends of the developers and to get into the game early you will have to preorder like a lot of games do now.
Do I agree with it? I don't really care. In fact, I would almost rather wait for the game be released in a stable condition so that I do not get a negative opinion about it because of bugs, lag and lack of content.. etc.. Vangaurd SOH comes to mind.
- Posted: 4/12/08 5:21 PM
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