As said before, it depends on WHEN the Open Beta comes out, and I assume this topic is in response to the "hate" on FFXIV which I did try myself. That beta for example is most likely the release since the game comes out in less than a month, nothing will drastically change, so in that case you can treat it like a "trial" for some purposes.
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to me open beta is synonomous with publicity and free trial. I've yet to encounter an open beta where it wasn't 99% the same as retail
i've also yet to see an mmo open beta where the apologists don't use 'it's just a beta!' mere weeks from launch
As said before, it depends on WHEN the Open Beta comes out, and I assume this topic is in response to the "hate" on FFXIV which I did try myself. That beta for example is most likely the release since the game comes out in less than a month, nothing will drastically change, so in that case you can treat it like a "trial" for some purposes.