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Subject: All this halo 4 hate seems very familiar...
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Posted by: Agent Peeps
I know, I know. It's just all of it seems really absurd, I mean truly ridiculous. On one hand I can see why 343i didn't host a public beta, but given the final product it certainly seems like they should have.

Given the quality of the product, that's more reason why they shouldn't have given a public beta.

Public beta eat resources. Time, people, equipment. And all they are, are publicity stunts. They aren't Beta's they are MP Demos. People aren't playing the game, jumping up and down while shifting the camera slightly to the left to make sure that the texture's loaded properly. They aren't firing off rockets at the scenery to make sure they explode have X distance. Out of all of the "problems" that players found in the Reach Beta, I doubt that any of them were actually new problems that hadn't already been fixed in the current build.

H4 was rushed and incomplete without a Beta, having one would have meant that any opinions in terms of weapon balance, because that's about all you would have gotten out of a H4 Beta, would be meaningless since 343 wouldn't have had the resources to act on them.

And let me stress the word opinion in that last paragraph. Boltshot nerfers can bite me.

  • 12.20.2012 7:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Methew
Public beta eat resources. Time, people, equipment. And all they are, are publicity stunts. They aren't Beta's they are MP Demos. People aren't playing the game, jumping up and down while shifting the camera slightly to the left to make sure that the texture's loaded properly. They aren't firing off rockets at the scenery to make sure they explode have X distance. Out of all of the "problems" that players found in the Reach Beta, I doubt that any of them were actually new problems that hadn't already been fixed in the current build.
You don't hold a public Beta to find bugs. It's a nice side objective if it comes up, but the main point of a Beta is datamining like crazy! Networking, win to loss ratios, heat maps, kill frequencies with weapons, examining how the spawn system is working, etc.

  • 12.20.2012 7:41 PM PDT