Betawatch: August 13 - 20, 2010

A closed beta that lets everyone in? so basically an open beta with an NDA?

Isn't EQ2 Extended still in beta? I think that's what the site says.

I cant get clone wars to load, i get some error about updating my graphics card ?

You're not missing much with Clone Wars. It's just a series of minigames. There is no MMO in the sense that you're used to. You pretty much stand around in a hub area and select mini games to play. Not only that - but it's using the fake F2P model where they give you a limited demo of the game and call it Free to Play.

If you can only do the first few levels of a game - that's a DEMO, not a "free to play" game. It's no more a free to play game than any of the other demos that people can download for all the various games. They might as well start to call every demo "free game!".

We need two put up a different name for these game demos that disguise themselves as F2P while giving you 5% of the game to try out, and ACTUAL F2P games that give you almost the entire game except for some bonuses and bags, etc.

Anyway as far as this list goes - is it really that hard to have somebody go through and check each site real quick to see what has moved from what beta stage, etc? You guys sure got lazy fast!

Perpetuum is a semi-closed beta, if you apply you'll get accepted very quickly.

Clone Wars = MMD (Massively Multiplayer Disappointment)