Open Beta vs Closed Beta

[Viperthug91]

Wouldn't a open beta be better than a closed beta? It seems like with a open beta you would get much more feedback, have a higher chance of catching bugs, and have a broader sense of what is in or out of balance. And it seem like a closed beta though im sure it can still be effective Is Limiting yourself for no apparent reason

[Pac-Fish]

Despite the fact you have a good point, I don't think the EF devs will take kindly to your idea.

[Viperthug91]

Its not meant to be offensive. It just seems Logical

[BurroDiablo]

We can have both? The initial public release of the Ostheer might as well be considered an Open Beta, I'm sure there's going to be a lot of balance suggestions and bug squishing in the first month, but we require a Closed Beta before hand so the Ostheer goes through a serious, concentrated de-bugging and balancing effort before public release. Closed beta will be more about balance than bug testing, so starting the Open Beta at that stage would likely put a lot of people off playing further, to the detriment of the community (exhibit A being the v1.0 Soviets), there's a lot of be said about first impressions, and no amount of "It's only a beta!" will change peoples minds if what they witness initially is an unbalanced morass.

[Gerrit 'Lord Rommel' G.]

Like Burro said; a lot of players wont understand that a open beta isnt the "final release version" of the Ostheer.
The problem is that a lot of players are causal gamers. So they download this mod once. When this first download isnt good enough
to get their trust we will have the same problems like u could remember for the Soviet 1.0 release. A lot of people think that EF is still
crappy and broken till this day 

[Alexander 'ApeMen' J.]

and keep in mind that the closed beta is for balance feedback so you cant play vs comp
ostheer beta is a pvp only version because we definetly need the pvp feedback for the public release