I thought Fortnite originally stayed in beta so that they could ship updates to consoles with fewer hurdles. nowadays I have no idea if that’s still a thing
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Isn’t Fortnite still in beta or something?
bagelberger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I would say that most of the “legacy” live games are. Warframe is to the point that the developers, Digital Extremes, outright make fun of it being a 13 year old beta and jokes about what Soulframe counts as these days.
And a lot of it is because they launched into beta/early access/whatever before there was even a model for what that means.
Contrast that with the “newer” games like tarkov that assign milestones to leaving beta. Well, it used to be that leaving beta meant that tarkov would go to Steam but now it mostly is just being done so they can keep releasing expansions/modes without needing to put it in the deluxe preorder edition.
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 1 week ago
It’s the corporate way of saying “we’re too lazy/cheap to fix any bug, so please lower your standards.”