Currently playing a beta of an upcoming game and have no idea if/how much the developers can change things when there’s a month before release. When there is already so much work and detail put into creating a video game over years, how much can really be changed in a month or even a few and how?
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It would be a bad idea to do that, but it’s possible. Development teams typically don’t make their production builds immediately available to beta. Beta is usually the current release candidate, so it might not have all the features that developers are working on due to outstanding bugs or insufficient in-house testing. Once they are confident that changes are of sufficient quality, they’ll be pushed to beta and then eventually to release.
Now, it is possible that the development team has a bunch of outstanding changes that haven’t been pushed to beta, but it’s very risky to hold that much back when a release is close. Typically, they want to release to beta so that it can have a larger group playing and testing to find any bugs that they may have missed. If they wait until release, it’s possible they’ll find their release riddled with bugs that they hadn’t found during in-house testing.
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