This is bull if you know the attitude gamers have about betas.

People play a beta and if anything is wrong with it people will say "IT'S JUST A BETA, EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE AND WILL BE BETTER IN THE FINAL VERSION!!!" Which has never been true anywhere. But people keep pretending that beta is some kind of an experimental version that can be totally different from the final version instead of being an almost complete game where at most minor changes can happen.

If there would have been an ACU beta everyone would've said and believed that Ubi would fix the performance issues until launch which would have not been the case.

So yeah, betas are useless for the most part.

But they can make betas that cost 50 dollars, patch the bugs, add some content for a few more bucks, then release the 1.0 as a GOTY edition one year later.

Why would they realease a free alpha ?

Multiplayer heavy games of any sort should have Betas. Even if it's only a couple of maps/circuits, you have to do some decent testing of the online functionality with a global reach. Personally I think every PSN+ and XBL Gold member (tee hee Goldmember) should be in a lottery for closed Betas. Even if there's no open Beta having a substantial number of players around the world participate in a closed Beta will help.

You sir have my vote!

They should have mandatory gammas. :P

no they should be tested before release, like they used to do a long long long time ago in 2006

Did you watch the video? I mean, the guy has a point. A lot of crap has been put out and a lot of first day buyers have been getting screwed. Aliens: Colonial Marines was just a disaster and this AC game didn't help anything either. Again, this is only hypothetical. I'm cool either way, I just wanted to see what you guys had to say. If fans were actually involved maybe we would see a turn around in development adhering to the needs of the consumer increasing consumer trust in developers. I mean internal quality control teams are always needed but it would be great to see more betas.

no beta won't solve the issue. All the hardware manufacturers need to get tougher on them.

Of course not. They just need to work on release. If that requires a beta for a certain developer, then they should have one.

Or people could just wait to buy their games till they hear about it. If that happens on 2 big games it will change the industry. It will put the power back into the consumers hands and if those games are bug riddled and unfinished they won't be purchased. These companies spend too much money to have to totally fail like they would. It would encourage them to make a proper quality product again with proper product testing. 

I don't think beta's will help at all. They haven't for many games and many just use them to play a game for free without giving proper feedback. Demo's are different from beta's but they can be coded to be completely bug free while the game could be riddled with bugs.