First, you can see on their forums how this big open test is under their NDA. So you are not supposed to talk about it in detail.

I'll respect that, although when you at open stress testing, I think the cat is out of the bag.

Even if this game came out 4 years ago, I would still not buy it knowing what I know now. No offense to the developers, but these days you need to either make MMOs have lots of polish to get away with mediocre game play or you better have the best, most awesome, game play experience to make up for funky feeling graphics. This is a blanket statement to all MMO developers.

I think WAR is a good example of a game with nice graphics and good theories of game play, but the actual in-game experience is lacking enough to loose retention. And WAR is WAYYYY better than the slew of Betas that are hitting the streets lately. I don't know how these companies plan on surviving.