You know, anyone complaining about the word "beta" being used ought to do some research on what "beta testing" is all about.

The whole purpose of beta testing is to identify bugs in your program so they can be fixed. In an ideal world, that would eliminate all of the bugs for the release, but, of course, that isn't going to happen. Still, there is the expectation that all of the readily identifiable bugs will be dealt with.

That was not the case with RTW 1.0 release. There were many obvious and glaring bugs with the program. That left the job of beta testing it up to the people who paid money for the program, which is an unexceptable position to be in.

Now you may make the assertion that all companies do it, or somesuch nonsense, but that is merely an attempt to sidestep the issue. The game as it was released, was not in a sufficient state to deserve release. The paying customers got ripped off.

Now I don't blame CA for that, because I'm sure it was the corporate side of things that made the decision to release. But I'm certainly not going to praise their efforts for something that was as flawed as this was.

Bh