Micro$oft do it all the time with Windoze.Originally Posted by Aphose
Micro$oft do it all the time with Windoze.
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Bump. Can I get an employee response please?
Game is beta until they announce is not and remove ze Beta from the title. Makes sense.
All the time the game is full of bugs its still beta as far as I'm concerned, but it doesn't really mean much even if they say its gone gold if the bugs are still there does it?
If its beta hardware you would think they would have it sorted after a year!
http://www.thesettlersonline.com/en/terms-sale
then you go to
http://ubi.com/UK/Info/Info.aspx?tagname=TermsOfUse#q14
quote from there
"BETA TESTS
UBISOFT may, entirely at its own discretion, contact you to propose that you test, evaluate or comment on one or more games and Services, game elements and/or downloadable Content before they are marketed or launched, in order to identify bugs and errors in the programs and/or improve their functioning ("Beta Tests").
If you agree to test the games and Services, you must sign a confidentiality agreement for each Beta Test and return it to UBISOFT before you are accredited and the software is supplied to you or made accessible. Your participation in the Beta Test is subject to your signing of said confidentiality agreement and these Terms. The obligation of confidentiality remains in force until UBISOFT officially distributes the games, Services and/or Test Contents (as defined below) or discloses them in any other way to the public, without this being attributable to you.
Upon receipt of the signed confidentiality agreement, UBISOFT may then provide you with a beta version of a game or games, Content, Services and related documentation and/or any other information associated therewith, and, if applicable, authorisations to access UBISOFT's websites (collectively known as the "Test Contents") for the sole purpose of allowing you to test, evaluate and/or comment on the game(s).
You must perform the Beta Test personally and allow no one else to have access to the Test Contents. Beta test accounts may in no case be transferred. You will be asked to inform UBISOFT (and only UBISOFT) of your reactions and suggestions following your experience of the Test Contents in the Beta Test. All comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, criticisms and other data (collectively referred to as the "Comments") passed on, disclosed or offered to UBISOFT in the course of the Beta Tests, or more generally in the course of use of the Services, will be the exclusive property of UBISOFT. You therefore undertake not to exploit or publish your Comments or make them accessible by any means or process to any outside party other than UBISOFT. You acknowledge that, unless prohibited from doing so under the applicable legislation, UBISOFT may use, sell, promote and exploit the Comments in any way, without restriction and without compensation to you.
You agree and accept that the Test Contents which are supplied to you are highly confidential and/or exclusive information belonging to UBISOFT. You acknowledge that the beta versions of games and all other Test Contents made available to you by UBISOFT for Beta Tests have not yet been officially rated and you must make sure that no Test Content can be made available to or accessed by minors.
You acknowledge that UBISOFT may protect certain Test Contents by incorporating technical protection measures in them to prevent any unlawful reproduction or modification of the Test Contents. In particular, each Test Content is addressed to you by name and UBISOFT may use digital tattooing (watermarking) processes to identify any violation of these provisions concerning Beta Tests.
Beta versions of games and more generally any Test Contents are supplied to you as is and according to availability without any explicit or implicit guarantee of any kind. You play on a beta version at your own risk. You accept that (i) the Test Contents may include known or unknown bugs and that (ii) the games and/or other Test Contents may be available only on subscription once the beta phase is completed or at any other time subsequently. You acknowledge that UBISOFT is not obliged to allow you to play free of charge for any period, nor even to authorise you to access these Test Contents. You also accept that all your data, particularly any bonuses, points, Credits, states of progress and statuses attained in the course of the game may be erased and/or reset at any time. In this case, your progress and your data will be erased and you will return to the initial status.
You agree that violation of your obligations under this section would cause UBISOFT irreparable damage and that UBISOFT would be entitled to take any action to prevent any breach or risk of a breach of your obligations or to obtain compensation for the damage it has incurred, without prejudice to the right to terminate your Account in accordance with section 16 below
At the end of the Beta Test period, or at any time when UBISOFT asks you to do so, you undertake to return immediately all Test Contents received from UBISOFT.
Nothing in these Terms may be interpreted as giving you any right or privilege regarding the Test Contents. All of the Terms apply to the use you make of the games during the beta test phase."
im not a legal person but if oyu read whole Terms of service for settlers and ubisoft.... you notis a sharp shift in "beta testing" to "beta version" and in this text tehy are mostly considered the same..... anyway im not a legal person... took me 10 min to google this and to read it....
Hope it helped answer your question.....
Hello Ashley96xx
The Settlers Online EU servers are indeed beta.
No official date has been released on when the game will exit this stage.
Enjoy,
Sinister-King
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|What they say online/on site and what they actually do are two different things. In all reality they bhave like the game is released etc so from a legal point of view it will be substance over form in court which means they wont be able to hide behind the beta tag for very long if someone actually went through the effort to take em to court
Why someone would bother - would be beyond me though- unless they pull the plug on the game very soon and someone is holding the bag of unspent gems :P
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