Borkachev on 12 March 2008
After reading that article does that sound like Home is in beta and near complete?
Yes. Game-crashing bugs are par for the course on many beta versions of games. That's exactly what this process is designed to uncover.
Granted I know very much that Home has more than Counterstrike and UT2k4 but that still doesn't matter too much.
I'm not even concerned about the size and complexity of the games. Comparing a finished (and I'm guessing several-times patched) product's stability to a beta version is ridiculous. Home is in beta because it's buggy. If it weren't, it would be released.
If these crashes are still happening when the official release is out, then you can bring in your comparisons to other games. And what this story is about isn't the official release: it's another beta, a larger one, to push the system even harder and to hopefully uncover more of these massive bugs if they exist.
