Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a technically and game play wise, much much more superior game... I'll wait for that 360 Beta to go public... ty.

:(

This is one of the few times I wish I owned a 360. Want to trade for my PS3 for one month? I'll even throw in some pocket lint for free!

/jealous sigh

Aww, there there. Buck up son, buck up!

Ask someone else I already have a PS3

=P

Well then, looks like i'll be taking my pocket lint elsewhere. :(

You don't have to be a paid member to get in the beta.

after BF:3000

To busy with The Show and Hot Shots golf to care...

How much entertainment can you get out of basically an unfinished online demo?

You're basically testing the game for the developers free of charge.
While PS3 owners are playing full games, waiting for the final release of said 'beta' games.

really? i got an email for it, check your spam box!

I just signed up for the free ign shit and got the beta key just finished downloading...

Boo *sniffle* Hoo

I think betas are just easier to do on XBL for all the reporting back it already has consoles doing.

Error reports probably go back automatically for crashes and the like. Its clear MS has an infrastructure thats independent of games (insert P2P network jab here) to have their cross-game stuff run on, so if there's an event log to be sent back, it would go over that.

Sony doesn't have that sort of thing (yet), so it would probably be that much more difficult to get technical feedback.

It's not "boo hoo" it's a poor business model. Shimano doesn't send inferior gears at a latter date to Trek simply because they don't sell as many bikes as Huffy. No, they produce the best parts available for the Treks then scale them back for the Huffy line. It make sense, even if that isn't the best analogy.

Its a business thing, more people online with 360. Not that hard to understand, and yes it did come off as a Boo Hoo thing. Just buy all the consoles and stop bitching because your first choice didn't get something.

@Deaftly
With only 5000 people in the beta the total number of users becomes kind of irrelevant; there has to be another reason for doing it on 360. I don't think they'd have trouble finding that many participants in either console's online user-base.

Maybe its not reporting features, but the fact that they can bang out a 360 build more easily due to its PC similarities. I'm actually pretty curious about the reasons.

The reason more than likely has to do with the Beta existing on the system generates hype for the game. 360 has built a community where people pay attention to what others are playing (read: Pimps At Sea news). Whereas, personally, on PS3, I log in, see what others are playing and see if I'm interested in joining their games or not. So the PS3 has less of the "what is everyone doing" mentality about it's userbase.

Also, I do believe every game which had a beta on 360 has had a million sales. Would be nice if they could test that performance on PS3 but the only one which had the beta was Warhawk and I believe they said recently they were at 500,000. More developers need to start putting faith in PS3's userbase, but they shouldn't be crucified when they don't.

Also, since Live has a much more strict policy on the communications (read: complex and a major reason for lag in many games), you'd think the toughest nut to crack would be the one they test on. Just a theory though.

It's ok Trev I'll be testing this Beta for you also. The game eventually comes out on PS3 as well. So our careful testing will be benefiting you as well. Unless your still sick of FPS by then =P

Hey, I'd test it too if I didn't have to pre-order a game for a console I don't own. Free is free, good or bad, it won't have provided some corporate entity with sixty of my dollars -- I could always cancel the pre-order if I didn't like it -- for the crushing disappointment that is Rainbow Six Vegas 2. The mechanics did not age as well as I hoped. Loved the first one, but really should have rented it.

I think my pair of Tricky Dick Fun-Bills (the worst tax plan ever rebate check, which is coincidentally the same amount as the Futurama joke) is going to get here too late to get in to the beta, but I think it will still be covering the cost of an 360 elite for me.

Trev getting a 360? I'll need the Gamertag to beleive it! =P Cool man, maybe you can see first hand why alot of people prefer 360 over PS3.

I already know why. Hell, EVERYONE must know why by now; people never shut up about achievements or cross-game voice chat. Unfortunately neither of those things really matter to me, so the elite going to pull equal at best.

Anything besides Halo let you play online for free? I'll jump into 360 exclusive games, but I'd rather not jump into subscription fees.

Well, take that free month they give you and check it out. Then decide if $4.17 a month is too much to play on a quality online service. IMO it definatly is.

I think you meant 'defintely is *not*' [too much]

*isn't


lulz

Same.

Did you even bother trying to sign-up, im from the UK and i got the beta key and redeemed it on my PAL Elite.