MMOGames.com presents: Beta Blues
by Daniel Ball and Cody Hargreaves
Dan: The word Beta can have a lot of connotations for many different people. Lovers of language will describe to you its Greek roots. A physicist will have his own spiel about just what the word Beta means to him. The same goes for medicine, electronics, and even psychology.
However, we gamers tend to have our own understanding of the word, or, indeed, multiple. It can be the beginning of something beautiful or, more commonly, an indicator of a really poor quality game.
You might download a ridiculously large installer (which for me and my middle-of-nowhere Internet is anything larger than 500MB. Go Australia!) only to play for five minutes and realise that all that lurking on forums, and all those trailers you religiously watched in anticipation were completely misleading.
