by Enrique Caroli on May 01, 2008
Watch out, rabid fans!
In response to some pretty strong comments on his article about Funcom's open preview beta on Fileplanet yesterday, MMORPG Editor Jon Wood has written a response in his blog to try and quell the conspiracy theorists.
I may be in the minority, but I just wasnt surprised by the initial decision from the company to go through Fileplanet for a beta. Its not the first time a company has chosen this route for open beta distribution. Heck, I remember back when I was working on Wish, we distributed our client through good ol FP and that was back in 2005. I remember someone telling me back then that this would become the standard for MMO beta distribution and I still cant disagree.
Read Jon's full blog post here.