Pointing the fingers at a "WoW Conspiracy" is almost a conspiracy in and of itself. I've been around MMO's for quite awhile now. EverQuest for 8.5 years, then WoW for another 5(and counting) and now checking out Neverwinter (enjoying it enough to actually drop the $$ for the Hero's of the North). All the message boards…
No, it stopped being beta once they started accepting real money and declared no more wipes. A real beta is for debugging and stress testing the servers. Then wipe everything for a live launch where everyone starts off fresh.