I respect the fact that Revelation Online is in beta right now. It’s closed testing and there’s going to be a character wipe. I respect that a lot. That’s a pretty significant difference from, say, H1Z1, which has been asking for money for quite some time now if you want to play the game and functions as a live game, but still technically squeaks into the “Early Access” wheelhouse.
Of course, it’s not always cut-and-dried. Shroud of the Avatar is a game that many people point to as being functionally launched, but it’s also a title that has been visibly in development and hasn’t pretended otherwise at any point. It’s been a little while since the game’s final wipe, though, so you could argue that it really should have pushed that big red “Launch” button then rather than several months later.
And let’s not get into the many, many free-to-play games which are in open testing for a year or more while claiming to be in beta, despite the lack of any sort of wipe. So what do you think, dear readers? Which MMO is doing the worst job of pretending it’s in beta?
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