Leimrey, on 17 January 2013 - 07:43 AM, said:
This game hasn't left pre-alpha stage yet. It's so buggy, unbalanced and content limited that it's not even funny. Seriously, it's full of placeholders being just placeholders for more placeholders which will be added in the future like the current economy, matchmaking and weapon balance. Besides, beta test implies that the players get to actually test something, report the results to the devs and get some sort of reaction in the form of balance tweaks. PGI just doesn't listen to its testers and seemingly adds or removes things at random, unless the devs themselves become victims of abuse (see collisions which were removed after the players bullied the devs in game with them). We have been waiting for PPC and ER weapon buffs for 3 months now and truedubs are still untested in-game, even though the community has been asking for them and presenting logical arguments and math why we need them for months now. And I'm not even talking about the catapult torso twist and ballistic hardpoint nerf.
I don't know squat about game development
but i know a thing or two about work ethics. When you get a deadline you meet them. half the patches get delayed by PGI, and of those that do actually make it to its actual patch date, promised content is missing. When trial mechs are supposed to rotate. they rotate
And you definitely don't make your boss force you into open beta.