Calendars. (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Monday, July 07, 2014, 19:05 (3587 days ago) @ kapowaz

I’d like to echo comments from others elsewhere that the 10 day (minus 2 days for maintenance) beta duration is unacceptably short. Bungie: you spent months advertising the beta as a perk of pre-ordering. Those of us who are familiar with betas in the world of massively-multiplayer online games are used to betas that last several weeks if not months, and so it was not unreasonable to expect something similar.

The betas for the various World of Warcraft expansions lasted between 4 and 8 months.

You were honestly expecting a three week to eight month long beta for this game, when we knew there was only a maximum of ten weeks between the start of the beta and the full launch (assuming the beta had started in June). As it is, there are only six weeks between them. At some point you're talking about a demo, and not a beta. If anyone actually expects Bungie to be able to incorporate the feedback they get from the beta into the commercial product, how can they do that while still simultaneously supporting the old beta version and the new commercial version? Or do you expect updates during the beta, updates that would lock you out of playing until you download them?

I think people's outrage is starting to affect their abilities to do math...