Quote Originally Posted by pevergreen View Post
The main good part of this is, that -to my knowledge- this is the first time CA have done closed beta testing to the public. If it goes well, they may choose to utilise the community again, which would lead to possible beta testing of the next game, creating a less buggy launch?

I would love to think that, but my gut feeling is that this is the start of the damage limitation excercise. "We know we did it wrong", "We opened up testing for the fanboyz". Some articles in the tame gaming press and all is forgiven and everything is set to sweep up on the ETW expansion.

CA are masters at this sort of marketing chicanary.

Ask yourselves this ... if ETW had flopped, do you think you would be getting any patches at all? I dont ...