Lets also remember this is open BETA and not intended as the release the end product. Someone once said that the more foolproof you make something the more ingenious the fools will become.
Beta indicates that there are bugs yet to be found/fixed and that work on other sections is still in progress. Closed beta lets us find and fix a majority of them, open beta is an invitation to see what the ingenuity of some of you can find and break.
If you wish to play NS4 in its finished and polished state then you are of course welcome to refrain from enjoying it and helping to further shape it until such time as the beta tag comes off.
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Note: Alpha comes before beta. Alpha releases are generally limitted to just the developer group.
If you tilt your head far enough and squint hard enough, anything becomes as simple or complex as you'd like--regardless of whether it is or not. -- A lesson learned from Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science
I don't think there was a beta... It just popped up named NS3 one day instead of NS2, with a vault wipe. Some items got changed, a few more areas, but I didn't see any major changes at least. And I was the first lvl 2 on NS3, bow down before me!Billiard wrote:How long was NS3 in beta before the tag came off? I realize that it will depend on the number of bugs that come up and how severe they are, but I was wondering if it would be months or more before the final vault wipe and NS4 went Alpha.
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Hmm - guess I need to bone up on my software development terms lol. With product development we talk about final products being alphas - I just figured it was the same for software.
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