Would you pre-purchase SOW now to be a part of the Beta team?

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Originally Posted by philip.ed

But what would make it pointless is if Oleg's previous comment was set in stone. IIRC, he made it quite clear there wouldn't be an open BETA.
But you can still discuss DCS. I personally can't see SoW having an open BETA and personally I don't think it matters. Even if Oleg wished it, he wouldn't have the time (I don't think) to put it together, as they are so busy working on getting the game out. He discounted the idea of a demo for similar reasons too as far as I can recall.
However, i'd be happy to be proved wrong, although I doubt my PC could handle the game on lowest details anyway.

A demo is a completely different thing than an open-beta.

A demo represents the full version of the game as an advertising. Therefore it has to work nearly perfect.

An OpenBeta is a beta-version of the game and as such by definition is incomplete and not representative of the final version.


Oleg is not God. He's not almighty and knowing everything and as such nothing he says is set in stone, ever. He's making announcements based on his experience, good reasoning and things he knows better than any of us.

If it was otherwise, we'd all be playing BoB already.