Battlefront 2 demo available now yesterday was only available foe people that preordered the game
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m.ad
6 Oct 17#1
Was playing this on my Xbox last night, great fun :grin:
johnthehuman
6 Oct 17#2
It's a Multiplayer Open Beta, not a demo :wink:
manc80 to johnthehuman
6 Oct 17#3
Does it not also act to demonstrate the product.
paulj48 to manc80
6 Oct 17#5
As this wont be the end released product then I'd say no.
Smadmad to paulj48
6 Oct 17#24
No demo ever is.
johnthehuman to manc80
6 Oct 17#6
Nope, this isn't representative of the final product. It's beta. You're supposed to play it to report any bugs / glitches etc.
QuickProfits to manc80
6 Oct 17#7
No its multiplayer beta access.
manc80 to QuickProfits
6 Oct 17#8
So it's not demonstrating the multiplayer element in its current beta state? I think most people will be using it as such rather than to report bugs. Especially given its proximity to the release date.
QuickProfits to manc80
6 Oct 17#11
You don't report them yourself. The developers are watching to see what happens and will adjust things accordingly.
A beta is testing the game for bugs and other issues.
A demo is promotional. They may well release a demo in the near future. You will know if they do because it will be called a demo.
hugoboss
6 Oct 17#4
I didn’t know I’ve downloaded from my phone psn app so i will try when come back home
johnthehuman
6 Oct 17#9
Dude give up. It's a beta, not a demo.
thekitkatshuffler to johnthehuman
6 Oct 17#10
It's more demo than Beta. Beta is just a marketing phrase these days. They won't be making changes based on the "play testing" done this week.
QuickProfits to thekitkatshuffler
6 Oct 17#12
Of course they will.
thekitkatshuffler to QuickProfits
6 Oct 17#13
It's released in a month. This is a demo in all but name.
haritori to johnthehuman
6 Oct 17#32
All demos are beta's.. pedantic much?
demo as a verb means;
demonstrate the capabilities of (software or another product).
in fact 'beta' is used incorrectly as the term “beta” refers to a product’s stage of development.. you can't really release a stage of development, but you can release a demonstration of a current stage of development.
Jees kids these days.. try going back to the 80's and getting a demo cassette of a spectrum mag.. none of us got beta cassettes :stuck_out_tongue:
johnthehuman to haritori
6 Oct 17#34
We didn't get betas because we got full releases on Speccy or Amstrad. They had to, since it was shipped out on a tape, and they couldn't just patch a tape after release.
Technically all games are rolling betas now, since games are constantly being developed, even after release. It's one thing I hate about modern gaming.
Imagine if you bought a book, and then in a few weeks the author decided to change chapter 7, so they sent you some new pages to read :grin:
Call it what you like.. It really does not matter does it. All I am 100% sure of is I have never liked Star Wars! :smile:
JB74 to QuickProfits
6 Oct 17#27
How can you not like R2D2..... that little tin rascal, he gets up to all kinds of mischief. I do think he would have been better with a mexican handlebar moustache though :face_with_monocle:
condracky
6 Oct 17#16
These comments are less Star Wars and more Nerd Wars.
manc80 to condracky
6 Oct 17#17
Hhaha! blame being bored at work. Was just fun to wind up the usual forum pedant who gets hung up on these things!
fuzzle3
6 Oct 17#18
Who gives a crap if it's a demo or a beta, just play it and decide whether or not you are going to buy it.
manc80 to fuzzle3
6 Oct 17#20
Don't decide based on this!!! It's not a demo for Christs sake !
condracky to fuzzle3
6 Oct 17#21
Because you're not a "real gamer" (aka sadact) unless you get these things right.
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A beta is testing the game for bugs and other issues.
A demo is promotional. They may well release a demo in the near future. You will know if they do because it will be called a demo.
demo as a verb means;
in fact 'beta' is used incorrectly as the term “beta” refers to a product’s stage of development.. you can't really release a stage of development, but you can release a demonstration of a current stage of development.
Jees kids these days.. try going back to the 80's and getting a demo cassette of a spectrum mag.. none of us got beta cassettes :stuck_out_tongue:
Technically all games are rolling betas now, since games are constantly being developed, even after release. It's one thing I hate about modern gaming.
Imagine if you bought a book, and then in a few weeks the author decided to change chapter 7, so they sent you some new pages to read :grin:
The existence of this forum begs to differ.
All I am 100% sure of is I have never liked Star Wars! :smile:
I do think he would have been better with a mexican handlebar moustache though :face_with_monocle: