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Originally Posted by Kimi  My guess would be that they're using the debugging stuffs to automatically report issues. In effect, they're getting 50,000 people to play a buggy client, which is reporting where these 50,000 people are having problems.
Pretty smart, in a way. Since, as previously mentions, 49,500 of those people aren't likely to manually post a bug report, if they can help it. |
Thats not exactly logical is it?
Why not use the real client the same way?
And it cant be a stress test, because if it is then it would be far too late to do anything about it before launch, same with most bugs
Beta's nowadays are all about generating hype, and they have been for several years, all the testing gets done before they let the masses in. The only thing these final Beta's are good for is either increasing interest in your game or testing the load on the servers, its too late for anything else.
Thats why they have early closed beta testing, so they can push it back and fix things before release (WAR being recent example)