Stop calling it a beta

[Coglin]

I call it a paid Beta because we are asked for our feedback.

This is a post of pure genious. Because what idiot in there right mind would pay for a game after release, in a game where the devs appear to care about player feedback. I mean thats just plain stupid to want to put up with that crap from a dev team. Think about how bad the MMO world would be if all the games had dev teams that cared about player feedback.

This man is a pioneer of the industry.

[Riffy]

The fact that this is up for debate should say something. Seems there are equal amount of opinions on each side~

[Rizon]

First, to those who are calling Ver 2.0 a gigantic expansion I must respectfully disagree with you. To me an expansion is just that, an add-on to existing content under existing conditions. Ver 2.0 wil be introducing a whole new story line, a new graphics engine, new UI and new world maps plus other items I forget off the top of my head. Much of what we are seeing through ver1.20 were fixes and improvements to the current game and these will not be carried over to the new game. That make the current game and Ver 2.0 2 different entities. Granted much of the changes to classes/jobs, crafting and additions in upcoming patches will be carried over to the new game they will continue to be played under the current format. Because there are no annonced plans to introduce the new features I listed above to the game prior to the release of Ver 2.0 I do not see how we can call this Beta testing.

[Lerris]

The term Beta can only be applied by the devs. They are not referring to the current state as beta, therefore it is not a beta.

If you think it's a crappy, unfinished game, call it a crappy, unfinished game. Don't twist and distort the definition of beta test to sound more intelligent. It backfires.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

The term Beta can only be applied by the devs. They are not referring to the current state as beta, therefore it is not a beta.

If you think it's a crappy, unfinished game, call it a crappy, unfinished game. Don't twist and distort the definition of beta test to sound more intelligent. It backfires.

I bet internally they are make little jokes to each other like "well beta take 2?" of course they would not publicly say "oh hey...yeah we are taking this game back to beta status" because that would be really stupid.....

SE wont say it, they know better, but many of us here know better, this game is reverted to a beta form, one that we are paying for (honestly don't care about this part) 2.0 will be the games second official release, and then the game will be officially reborn/released.

[Bowen]

Honestly, who cares? Just enjoy the game. Christ. . .

[Geesus]

FFXIV is beta still, sure the system is getting better but it still got long way to go.

If the game is still being fixed, modified, changed from the initial system I say it's beta which they are still doing. Just because this is an MMO or any online game that can drastically change from initial release... FFXIV even at current state has tons of stuff lacking from what initial games should have at launch so I say it's still beta.

But even if its beta or not I don't care... I just enjoy what I can enjoy in the current game even though it frustrates me at times....

^This ....

[Baxter]

The term Beta can only be applied by the devs. They are not referring to the current state as beta, therefore it is not a beta.

If you think it's a crappy, unfinished game, call it a crappy, unfinished game. Don't twist and distort the definition of beta test to sound more intelligent. It backfires.

Well technically they did call it beta. When Yoshi took over he mentioned that nothing changed from beta to release. The team never got to a lot of the glaring issues, and they did not get to implement a lot of features. We still do not have a lot of those features and fixes even now.

Yoshi states time and time again that '2.0 isn't a new game.' So if 2.0 isn't an all new game what are you playing right now? Beta + story.

[Elexia]

Well technically they did call it beta. When Yoshi took over he mentioned that nothing changed from beta to release. The team never got to a lot of the glaring issues, and they did not get to implement a lot of features. We still do not have a lot of those features and fixes even now.

Yoshi states time and time again that '2.0 isn't a new game.' So if 2.0 isn't an all new game what are you playing right now? Beta + story.

Beta+story huh? Where's the Crystal Tower then? Shouldn't we be beta testing that before release? You know, like what betas are for?

Where's my Chocobo battle buddy? Something else slated for 2.0, why aren't we testing that atm? I mean, since version 1.x is a beta after all we should be testing the 2.0 client on the 2.0 servers right now.

[Reinheart]

Beta+story huh? Where's the Crystal Tower then? Shouldn't we be beta testing that before release? You know, like what betas are for?

Where's my Chocobo battle buddy? Something else slated for 2.0, why aren't we testing that atm? I mean, since version 1.x is a beta after all we should be testing the 2.0 client on the 2.0 servers right now.

For that should be after April looking at the 2.0 roadmap since 2.0 system isn't even ready up until April when it finally starts going through software check phase. Now with this stuff it wont even allow porting our current data into 2.0 till they start that in May so it will really be beta testing with new character and all that w