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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7928925" data-attributes="member: 6704184">It’s only open to subscribers, not the entire user base. A different stage of testing. This seems disengenuous. Surely you know about states of testing. nope. The core functionality is only those things not in beta. Well, no. The terms of a beta are determined by the company making the product. We in fact knew from day one that features would be added based on beta test feedback. And that isn’t all that strange in digital entertainment.But even if your spuriously prescriptivist definitional arguments were correct (and they aren’t. Language doesn’t work that way. Period.), so the hell what? You mad that they’re using “beta” and “alpha” “incorrectly”? Really!?That is literally how definitions change. Or more commonly, how words gain new definitions, in addition to older definitions. Others have provided evidence, the gaming industry runs long term semi-open tests where new features are a possibility or where the functionality is throttled at first and features are revealed to the beta players one at a time. Every MMO I’ve played regularly in the last 20 year has entire servers that are literally just open beta tests, and sometimes alpha testing occurs there as well if they think they can get useful data early with a large scale stress test. These servers are open to literally everyone who plays the game.Perhaps you should consider that “software” isn’t actually an industry, and that digital entertainment is a different industry from yours, and has different industry jargon and methodologies, and that sub industries of digital entertainment also differ from each other in jargon and methodology.Great points. For me, once it integrates with the PC character sheets it will be worth it to me. Well, that and when I can add an existing character to a campaign, rather than needing to rebuild the character from the campaign link.</blockquote>

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