Since the release of Sony's Home earlier this month, many question the reason for the "open beta" descriptor and how long it will remain. According to Jack Buser, director of Home, in a Kotaku video podcast (via Shacknews), the service may remain in "open beta" indefinitely, saying another phase of its existence is to be determined.
Addressing why it's still in open beta, Buser says,
"Open beta" is "sort of synonymous with our idea of launch, in that we really want to emphasize that what you see in Home on any particular day is subject to change. Home is a living, breathing, evolving, growing platform."
In other words, if something goes wrong, they can always point a finger and say "hey, open beta." Besides, it's not like the development state has prevented Sony from selling virtual goods like "hotcakes."
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"According to Jack Buser, director of Home, in a Kotaku video podcast (via Shacknews)"
So by beta they just mean Home is in it's early stages in terms of content, but it's really not a beta. They just want to point the finger and say "it's a beta" Seems a little sneaky.
seems like they have the beta thing there so if anything goes wrong they can say "well it is still in beta"
the idea of leaving a service in "beta" indefinitely seems like a shady deal to me
You people need to realize that this is a journalist's opinion. Sony did not say that they are leaving it in the beta version in case if something goes wrong. I wish people would start thinking for themselves a little bit. Journalists are not always right. There job is to write a story andget people to read it. That is why journalists are sometimes very biased.
For Pete's sake, this isn't even a valid article. This is just one guy's cynical 2-sentence reaction to a Kotaku interview, based on how literally he translates the term "open beta."