This game already looks pretty beta...

They mentioned 'under the hood' stuff that isn't screenshot friendly. That would most likely be the netcode, transitioning from surface to space and other 'cogs, wheels and sprokets' type things that make it go . Don't worry, they promised a beta and we'll get a beta. I'm 99% sure what they do release will break sufficiently enough to justify itself as a beta (with a 1% margin of error) ((this prediction is a product of the LordHavoc-tm brand prediction machine 'beta' )).

If however on the off-chance they release a beta that is fully function and doesn't break. It can then be labelled as one of the most failed betas of all time.

 

Technically, yes. But the devs on Minecraft shifted their goalposts of what the "feature complete" stage was.

 

Or it could be that our money is so hard earned that we want what we pay for in some simile of a timely manner. You'd be surprised what growing up in perpetual poverty will do to a person.

All this ambiguity is making me personally lose patience with this entire project. I can't speak for anyone else but I KNOW I'm not alone.

 

Look at minecraft, the game is fully finished but it is worse than starbounds unfinished form but they still play it so, they can release the game for sure

They say that they dont wanna give us half baked bread but i love half baked bread

 

Aside from the hostility, the devs will announce the beta soon enough! ^^

 

People should note that just because something looks pretty, it may not be ready yet

 

How about feature complete that the devs plan on having for release?

*Fingers crossed*

 

Come on, unless you're in some third world country working at a sweatshop I wouldn't call the money we make "hard earned".

 

Do we really need another one of these threads?

Such a pointless discussion... The game is in beta if the devs decide it is. They have decided what content has to be in for a beta release and they will work on that goal for as long as it takes. If they release it this summer, great! If they release it this winter, still great! I don't care if I have to wait longer as long as they release the game they want us to experience. They are not working on "pointless" UI and options stuff. They're adding the features they want in the beta and that's totally fine because they never said they would do something else.

Besides: Just don't watch gameplay footage, don't check the site daily and you'll see it's pretty easy waiting for a game to come out. If you're still having trouble, play some Risk of Rain instead

 

Not sure if it has been pointed out to you but I think you are missing your role as the beta tester. Yes, everyone would like to get in an play the game but that is not the point of beta. They will need almost every mechanic, options variable, UI element and graphical asset that will be in the full version before beta is open. In beta the game is very nearly ready to ship. It is your job as the beta tester to be the last line of defense and catch any bugs, glitches, typos, etc -- They shouldn't waste time letting people play the game when it isn't near completion and I support any developer on this. Just be patient. You'll get your chance to play the game.

 

True you are but one of the many people with the same unhealthy opinion. Not to mention I work hard for my money and am not even close to middle class yet. But I know to have patience when it comes to game development. Also that games are stories crafted by developers and that the consumer should not stifle creativity with their opinion like test audiences have done for so many movies.

 

Come on why are we still arguing over the same thing? Starting to lose faith in this community...

 

Your opinion has no validity. Come back when you've developed a video game and know what the hell you're talking about.

 

You try to put people in their place by adding the woes of poverty over a life time, yet you can't wait for a video game to be released. Perspective.

 

That described my high school girlfriend for YEARS...

...What?

 

Here is the thing beta isn't an early version of a game. Beta of a game has all the features of the game
implemented and now needs to be ironed out. To me this game looks to be in late alpha stages.

Here are examples of what I'm talking about.
Most of the UI is done but some of it still needs work. Do you want to play the game if it wont let you lets say craft because you can't open up the UI do so, or how about items that aren't in game. Almost everything I have seen has had to be spawned in using admin controls such as armor and weapons.

 

It's not Beta yet, checking the road map, lets just say a lot of the server side stuff just isn't up to speed, that couple with a lack of quest based content, to me it seems like they'll fix up the server side stuff and then release it and from there add in updates to patch the quest based stuff. another month perhaps and we may see the Beta.

that's my two cents anyway.

 

Rushing something out before it's finished has been the bane of many games. Publicly traded studios have their shareholders (who they are legally obliged to act in the best interest of) simply want the profit right now rather than waiting until later - it doesn't matter to them what ends up happening as long as they get their $$$. So the game is forced to come out early and surprise surprise, it's considered garbage because it wasn't given time to be finished properly. And of course, the studio are the ones who end up copping the blame.
Doesn't matter how much potential the game had, it gets savaged to hell and back by critical opinion, which dooms it to die a death.

 

Bah, I personally hated MC's "beta" stage. It was filled with bugs, and had very few features, when a beta is supposed to almost be the opposite of that. Is it really that bad to want to release a game as complete as possible? People did it all the time years ago and no one complained back then. So come on, I'm pretty sure we can wait just a little bit more. It'll be worth it.

 

It's nothing to do with whether I can or could wait. It was purely based on what I had seen so far with live feed and videos and such. Good responses have allowed me to see both sides of the story. For and against.