Can You Tell Me How this can be true.

Ok, so I'm reading an article on Bigdownload and it just so happens to be an interview with one of the designers of Battlefield Heroes. It seems to be your standard interview. What gets me here is that once again, folks at EA are telling us that the game is "out" and "released." James Salt along with several other key EA execs feel that when a game is in beta stage and people in the public are playing it consitutes a release of a game.

Hold the presses!!!! Wait, what? OK, DICE project lead James Salt says that "So, basically, Heroes is already out and we are adding new players every day." So by randomly selecting players to play your video game is the same as a finished product ready for everyone to play? He says they are taking a similar approace to Gmail, where they add users little at a time for stress testing. Does that mean the game "out" and "being played."

Some how I think not.

I will not fault DICE and EA for trying to actually do some testing on their product. By no means do I want them to rush, and even when the game is released since it is free to play we may still see some bugs, but we gladly accept that risk. Just don't tell me it's out when the game still can't be freely downloaded. Stop telling half-truths!!!