That is just the most beautiful thread title I have ever seen.

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This can not be!

I have become accustomed to waiting for EB2: Total Wait!
The changes I'd be forced to make to my day to day life if EB2: Total Wait ever actually gets published is unacceptable!

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Though I am wondering if I should change the thread title to "open beta release data confirmed", for the sake of accuracy.

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It's just a late April fools prank. EB2 comes two weeks after Episode 3.

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bet testing ? i´m gonna wait or else it feels like you set the date and it´s ok to deflower your bride just because the weading is set

it´s just a few more months until october where i get some vacations and so i respect the bride and will wait for the weading night (unleass the bride doesn´t want to wait ... )

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no, I'm afraid this is not a prank. it's supposed to be mid August, as stated.

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best news all year :)

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I struggle with that terminology. When we release v.72 of EB1, THAT was a beta. It was buggy and crashed frequently. It was still fun, but the stability issues were frustrating. Not until v.74 (about 4-5 months later) were most of the worst CTDs tracked down and removed. That was a fairly complete game, but we still called it a beta as it was pre 1.0. Another 7 months go by and the team releases v.80. Huge improvements across the board, but randomly buggy and technically still a beta. Finally a few updates later, we released v1.0. Was that "finished"? Were all the bugs gone? No to both questions.

For me personally something is an alpha when it's not even playable...just a mess. A beta is full of bugs and likely to crash at any time. So where is EB2 in all this? We'll have 200 units out of a planned 500, so on that basis we're only 40% done. On the other hand the game hasn't crashed in MONTHS. So what is it? From my perspective, it's incomplete. And it will remain so for years to come, in all likelihood.

But will it be fun to play? Will it continue to be upgraded in various areas? Yes. So people should enjoy it for what it is, and help identify some things that can make it better. But it will not be a chore. It will be immersive and very interesting. The historical accuracy alone is breathtaking to me. Head and shoulders above what we did in EB1.

So people can call it anything they want, but we think you'll enjoy it.

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That's good news. For the record, though, the "terminology" comes directly from the twitter message.

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Quite true, and we'll almost certainly call the first release a beta. I just wanted to go on record with my thoughts on this because when most people hear the word "beta", they expect a buggy, unstable product. That won't be the case here, although it will be obviously incomplete in several areas.

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Damn. There goes my summer holiday.

<£600 holiday money diverted to new PC>

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