Are WiPs spoiling us?

[ClaimedMinotaur]

@Eiwynn

The following quote is very relevant here:

@jasonstevanhill

To follow up to Havenstone, if you say “I did a beta!” but you mean, “my three best friends and my mom played it and they all told me it was awesome!” that doesn’t mean it was given a beta test. We want to see the community given a real opportunity to engage an author in a dialogue.

In particular, when we at Hosted Games are trying to decide if we should expend money/capital on a game (putting it on Steam, putting it in a mailer, tweeting about it), Rachel gives her input, and then we look at the beta thread to see how the community has responded. Thus, whether the game is freely accessible or not, letting us see the feedback of the beta testers helps us decide how we market it.

I swear I’m not trying to piss you off, but it doesn’t make any distinction between the kind of betas. From everything the internet tells me, you can have users involved in both public and private betas. The distinction just seems to be whether it is publicly available or not.
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