We don’t mean to laugh at your suffering, Final Fantasy XIV fans, but we have to admit that we find this whole situation pretty amusing. See, Square’s slammed the brakes on its FFXIV open beta test, which was scheduled to begin on August 31.
“FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test, which is scheduled to begin at 19:00 (PDT) on Aug. 31, 2010, will be postponed due to a confirmation of critical bugs. New schedule will be released at a later date,” the developer wrote on FFXIV’s official site.
So then, why are we conjuring up our hardest Gigglaga at your expense? Well, here’s the thing: aren’t beta tests all about sniffing out and squashing the daylights out of “critical bugs”? If we were to yank the phony costume mustache off this “beta test” guy, we’re pretty sure we’d find our old buddy “glorified free promotional demo” underneath — as we have with countless other recent “open betas.” Can we just start calling these things by their real names already?
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