Public Beta Tests of MMO's are a weird thing. They are part marketing, part load testing, and a small part real bug testing. I think most of the players do not realize that there job is not to find bugs, that's what the QA department is for, but rather to stress the servers and give gameplay feed back. One other thing I see is players complaining that the developer are not reading what they write in the forums. They are they really don't have times to respond to all the posts and also a lot of companies have policies in place that keeps them from responding as well. Hopefully I have cleared the air a bit on what is going on during games beta testing.
