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After many years of testing programs and being involved with beta testing I beleive that this is the first time I have ever seen a production program superceded by a Beta Test before it came out of Beta. Please explain.
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Rather simple really, the games programming language changed and they're updating it some 5 years later with much better 3d graphics (ala sims 2 style) adding much more content (custom content) etc. Revamping alot of the game, changing alot of the code so yeah pretty much a 2nd beta because the game play style is definitly changing too because of the new type of economy.
People call it a *beta*, but is it really? Not necessarily, it's just receiving many more updats and upgrdes then it had previously. *Beta* is just a term some payers are tagging it with is all.