BF3 Beta Concerns, Post-Launch Support, and Weapon Balance – DICE Talks Fan Feedback
"Recently, we published an article detailing 7 awesome betas you should sign up for. In this article, we mentioned that there are two types of betas; ones that are used mainly as a promotional tool for developers, and ones that are actually used to test the game in it’s current state and purposed to acquire feedback from gamers for developers to work with before the final release date."
