Quote Originally Posted by BobTheTerrible
BTW, I've been in several beta tests myself. I can tell you that many beta's have more bugs than Rome did at release. I mean, look at star wars galaxies. Over a year from release and it's still buggy as heck.
And yet you're still using this "defense".

"I bought a car that fell apart in the lot, so you should be happy to have a car with only 3 wheels and no brakes."

Sorry, but that argument holds no water. It doesn't matter whether some betas have had more bugs than RTW. I mean, I could just as easily point to beta tests I've done that have had less bugs than RTW. But that proves nothing.

RTW when it was released had too many fundamental issues to warrant a release at that point. There were too many unaddressed issues. And too many things that should have been spotted during any competent beta test. The fact that they either weren't, or were but weren't dealt with is simply an indication that releasing a beta product on the customers wasn't considered to be a bad thing by the powers-that-be. And that is an entirely sad way to look at things.

Bh