Next Beta opening?

For those who are pre-ordering, we will probably let more people join just before Christmas. But that really depends on the state of the game.  Right now, we’re still working out basic stuff like crashing, memory leaks, and low level game mechanics.  I don’t anticipate the game being “fun” until Beta 2 and even then it’ll still be pretty raw.

A typical “beta” program that is open to the public wouldn’t start to what we are calling Beta 4.  So others might call Beta 1, 2 and 3 “alphas” if you’re into the semantics of this kind of thing.  But it gives you an idea of the distance that must be traveled between where we are now and where we expect the game to be something that a sane company would want its fans to see.