Open betas are more "marketing tool" than "actual test" for bugs, says GTFO developer

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 10 months ago

Open betas are more "marketing tool" than "actual test" for bugs, says GTFO developer

li10@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

If they released an actual beta then people would be pissed off.

Beta now essentially means “demo, but with an excuse for some bugs”

Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 10 months ago

I’ve seen full reddit threads of gamers raging on bugs in betas. Like, that’s what they’re there for. It’s not so you get special early access. It’s so you report those bugs and they fix it.