Infinity Ward employee fourzerotwo and the only guy who updates us on the latest Call of Duty 4 happenings, posted a little update about the CoD 4 beta and cleared the air about rumors of the game officially going gold.First thing is first, fourzerotwo confirmed that he has been playing a nearly final build of CoD 4 online, but the game is not 100% done yet or ready to be shipped. So, per the definition of gold status, we have no gold announcement just yet. Knowing that factoid he also wanted to reiterate the fact that those who are playing the beta are still helping the Infinity Ward development team, because they are still getting useful information daily. True, the CoD 4 retail version is pretty much finalized, but the information they gain from the online beta is and will be used to create patches, tweak gametypes and update their internal network. And here this past week we were thinking we were just playing for fun. Sheesh, it's good to find out that we were actually working while playing the beta and so now we think it's time to head back to work ...
