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08th December 2011, 22:55
Beta or not Beta?
Nowadays, almost every gaming company release their game in Beta mode, which helps them develop their game with the comments of players who have been lucky enough to get in the Beta phase, be it private or public.
Beta games are, as their names say, unfinished versions of a future game. There is a small but really important requirement to release a Beta game, it has to be a future heavy title or its Beta will never work.
Some of eSports' major games have been released in Beta phase before the full version comes out. We are all thinking about StarCraft II, which is now fully released, and DotA 2, which is still in Beta phase.
But is publishing games in Beta phase a good idea? Indeed would say a lot of people, but let's take a closer look into the idea.
As the games are not finished and ready to a full launch, they obviously contain some bugs, typos and lack some functionnalities, heroes or whatever would have a huge impact on the game. Of course it is a great way to get people ready for the game to be released and then pay for a game they had already been playing for free, but is it a good reason to play an unfinished and not fully working game?
Making Beta phases for games also allows game editors to find bugs, and this... for free.
Is it only due to money? Denying that it is for money would be misleading, but it might not be the only reason for releasing a Beta game. Taking DotA 2 as an example, who was not suprised to see VALVe promoting its on game with a $1,000,000 tournament? And this was not for the money? They obviously knew that offering more than one million dollars for a tournament would not cause them any problem, and they even knew that they would gain much more.
 | Moving on to StarCraft II, there were countless tournaments organized during its Beta phase where they all offered more prizemoney than the others... And all this for Blizzard's best pleasure. StarCraft II, DotA 2, and many other games have been or will be released in Beta phase few months before the full game comes out, just to see what's the game like, so customers can tell the game editors what needs to be improved or balanced. |
There are pros and cons to the Beta idea and can easily be debated; but still, it is up to the game editors' choice, and not customers'.
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