Smed says announcements next week

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Originally Posted by WildVS

Haha yeap, people have high hopes. Or maybe just plain high!

Wouldn't you think open beta would include all 3 conts? I guess they could be working OT to get the other 2 done but we haven't seen much of those yet.

it really depends on how they do it, theres 2 sorts of open beta's:

1: a marketing drive for people to try the game and build hype
2: large scale stress testing.

i think they would only use open beta for testing say a week-2 prior to launch to test their final server functionality, at that point id expect everything to be pretty much ready to go. they wont want to do an extended beta open beta because that means heaps of people trying the game, but nobody paying, giving the turnover rate of F2P games, this would be a bad idea for open beta to be going for awhile. using open beta as marking for a F2P game i see as been pointless too.

when i say open beta i mean: anybody can play.

id expect the game to be in closed beta, NDA dropped for the most part.