EA and DICE call their demo for Battlefield 3 a beta. What's the difference between a beta and a demo?
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
"Beta and Demo: What's the Difference?"
a beta is testing the game for bugs and other issues
a demo is promotional
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Problems in a beta are forgivable. Problems in demos are not.
Basically these days they see an open beta as a bit of both....
It's a Beta as they use it to identify and fix problems and test the servers.... but it is also quite obviously used as a demo as well to promote their game.... it makes sense to be honest.
It will still be called a Beta as it is being used as that.... whereas the term Demo is used when it is purely promotional.
The line between beta and demo has certainly been blurred in the past couple yrs. That was the point.
Beta's are certainly used as demo's, that much is clear. especially when access to a beta is 'given away' to people who pre order, buy certain games etc etc.
And agree around the point that by calling this a beta still, any bugs found can be put down to 'it's just a beta' despite the fact that the games only a month away.
It's just what this gen is all about, I can't think of a single game that hasn't been patched after release. It's obviously good that games can be updated, but last gen I don't remember having any real problems