Beta in the games industry is all to often just an early release marketing exercise. Real Beta's do happen. They have NDAs in early stages. Latter stages, including open beta, they state there will be character wipes before release. Before F2P models you didn't pay for the subscription during beta. With F2P models now you…
Oh now it won't let me do some tasks because I'm not high enough level. Task level leadership 5. My leadership level ... 5 :/ Forget about the stupid filtering not working at all...."Hide task above my level" (shows the task above too!) but also shows stuff really above my level :/
Well duh....I can't fly space ships in Neverwinter either...that doesn't mean it is still in Beta. This Beta is a marketing exercise not a development beta. Not all features being implement in a MMO doesn't define it as beta since every MMO I know have a whole slew of features they want to implement.
This isn't an "Open Beta" this is just a scam. If it was a beta they wouldn't be making money off the game. Sure the pre-orders are ok...but selling Zen that you can use in game... Are they going to do a character wipe at the end? Open Beta is just to draw people in. It is exactly like selling something for $19.99 you'll…