Beta is offline July 26th (Destiny)

by Phoenix_9286 , Monday, July 07, 2014, 09:44 (3803 days ago) @ INSANEdrive
edited by Phoenix_9286, Monday, July 07, 2014, 09:48

Three days of Beta for Xbox. All this hype. Three days.

To say this annoys me greatly would perhaps be underselling it.

"Oh hai Playstation. Have a week of totally unexpected Alpha!"
"Oh hai Playstation. Have a week and change of Beta!"
"Oh. Hey Xbox. You get three days."

You know, my girlfriend does 911 Dispatch. She's working 12 hour shifts nearly every day. We knew she probably wouldn't get a whole lot of time with it, but we were kinda hoping she'd at least get a weekend.

Nope. Not happening.

I get it. You have to pander to the Sony people, and there's probably all sorts of contractual BS to go along with it. But, and I've said it before, this makes me feel like a second class citizen. "Separate but equal" and so forth.

Is there even a point to jumping into the Beta if I'm only going to get three days? Yeah, better than nothing, but the Alpha was huge. Three days is nothing.

Excuse me while I go find something else to think about so I can cheer up.

Edit: This is fun too. "On July 23rd, we’ll begin emailing Xbox players their Destiny Beta codes." So does that mean you could potentially end up with even LESS time? Will they be nice enough to extend if Xbox users get shafted (ha!) and emails take more than a few hours or a day?