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Prismsblade posted...

Its along the lines of what I recall from their end of services announcement and here say. The original plan was just to open the beta for a while, build hype and sell dlc. Then close it and rerelease the complete game a year later.

But they kept the beta open likely due to the insane player count at its peak and revenues gained. Which was a mistake in my opinion, and should have ended as soon as the player count started to nosedive.

That and the game was fundamentally broken and needed a lot more then a few patchs to fix.

Fair enough. I do recall their end of services announcement saying they intended it to be a limited beta, but I also remember people feeling kinda blindsided, since they never really indicated there would be an "end" prior, and, usually, when something is openly charging you money for things, there is no real "end," prior to release. But they did decide to end it, and effectively screwed some people over, in the process.

Poor decisions, all around.