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And like some mentioned before, an MMO OB these days for a P2P game is more of a demo than a real test.
- Funcom's OB = Pay for it to join in (you needed a 3rd party website premium account in order to play) so not a real open beta but paying for a beta test, just like it its now several months after "release".
- Warhammer's OB = Only if you pre-order you get to join the OB so once again, it's not real open. And then again, you already have to pre-order it and puth your faith in the game before you can try it in open beta, and it's just one week.
You see, these are not real Open Beta's eather, they are a free/paying demo version of the game. The developers know this too, they want to have everything covered and finished before open beta and NDA release because gamers would already start breaking down the game telling how bad it is, even if it's "still beta".
Aion on the other hand will have an open beta, in Korea tho, and it doesn't have a strong NDA to hide the bad things for you. They don't aks you to trust them blind, you have lots of information to decide if it's your game or not.
I would rather prefer they could bring an OB to Europe and NA, but lets not spoil our own fun here with stating that everything will fail just because we won't test everything.
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