THE TRUE REASON.
Do any of you remeber that little game called Battlefield 3 the game that was going to make monsterious sales and take down cod.
Well it failed for 1 reason and one reason only
ITS BETA
the games beta had horrid graphics,horrible recoil,no destruction.
See gamers judged that game by its beta not realizing that a beta is only a test
not something for you to demo the game for.BATTLEFIELD WOULD HAVE OUTSOLD COD.If it wouldnt have realesed a beta.
Now Halo4’s purpose isnt to bring down cod even though http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/41070/USA/ but still it wants to suceed so tell me what you think.
But releasing a beta may not be the best option as gamers think of it as a demo
when it is really just there to get feedback and fix the game before release.
No offense, but why are people still making threads about a beta? 343 has already confirmed that no public beta will happen at all ever and they stated their reasons.
> THE TRUE REASON.
> Do any of you remeber that little game called Battlefield 3 the game that was going to make monsterious sales and take down cod.
> Well it failed for 1 reason and one reason only
> ITS BETA
> the games beta had horrid graphics,horrible recoil,no destruction.
> See gamers judged that game by its beta not realizing that a beta is only a test
> not something for you to demo the game for.BATTLEFIELD WOULD HAVE OUTSOLD COD.If it wouldnt have realesed a beta.
> Now Halo4’s purpose isnt to bring down cod even though http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/41070/USA/ but still it wants to suceed so tell me what you think.
> <mark>But releasing a beta may not be the best option as gamers think of it as a demo</mark>
> <mark>when it is really just there to get feedback and fix the game before release.</mark>
Exactly. With internal testing, 343 gets tons of quality feeback.
Look, OP thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes (JK)
But I think there is no beta because of mainly time, they only have 2 months left (It gets completed in 2 but released in 4) they have to focus on the game, also they have internal beta and things like RTX and Comic-Con.
> THE TRUE REASON.
> Do any of you remeber that little game called Battlefield 3 the game that was going to make monsterious sales and take down cod.
> Well it failed for 1 reason and one reason only
> ITS BETA
> the games beta had horrid graphics,horrible recoil,no destruction.
> See gamers judged that game by its beta not realizing that a beta is only a test
> not something for you to demo the game for.BATTLEFIELD WOULD HAVE OUTSOLD COD.If it wouldnt have realesed a beta.
> Now Halo4’s purpose isnt to bring down cod even though http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/41070/USA/ but still it wants to suceed so tell me what you think.
> <mark>But releasing a beta may not be the best option as gamers think of it as a demo</mark>
> <mark>when it is really just there to get feedback and fix the game before release.</mark>
Gee how many times have so many others have pointed this very fact out and everyone replied with “Ah derp, I want to play the beta so I can figure out if I want to buy the game, 343i needs to release a public beta! Derp!”
The beta was the only reason?
So the bland and dull campaign, niched multiplayer, ridiiculous update requirements all had nothing to do with it?
obviously OP knows everything.
The real reason is because a public beta on the order we saw with Halo 3 and Reach takes away a TON of development time. If you don’t have to do that you can release the game months and months sooner.
Not to mention the fact that a public beta like we saw with Reach don’t really offer anything other than (light) stress testing servers which I’d hope by your 5th time around you are already well prepared for this (Blizzard wasn’t with Diablo 3… go figure).
> Not to mention the fact that a public beta like we saw with Reach don’t really offer anything other than (light) stress testing servers which I’d hope by your 5th time around you are already well prepared for this (Blizzard wasn’t with Diablo 3… go figure).
Yeah, that’s not always the truth, yeah this is like the 5th Halo game, and 343i has built the Halo 4 engine off of Reach’s, which was built off of past versions, this is the first game 343i has developed, but even if they need to stress test the servers, they already have a big enough beta tester pool to pull testers from.
Also, Blizzard screwed up for a number of reasons.
honestly? I think Halo 4 is not having a beta so on Day 1 when Halo 4 comes out, the Multiplayer servers will crash, hard, and will force everyone to play the Campaign first.
There is no beta because they said there would be no beta because of time constraints.
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