It's already standard in the MMO-Genre (and in Action Games too) to start a big Beta test before the release of a game. But Splashdamage really doesn't want to do so. They want that only professional gamers with knowledge search some faults in BRINK.

As Richard Ham, Director of SplashDamage, says:

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In BRINK we decided to do a closed beta and to give the beta gamers who know what they do.

followed by a good reason:

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Betas are very important! But they have to be done professionally. If we don't give the game to hundrets of gamers with their own ideas and impressions, we never know enough to release a perfect game. At the same time, some Betas gets simply abused as marketing tools and some gamers use a beta like a demo version and expect that everything is already finished and fixed.

Source: nowgamer.com, vg247.com

In an official press announcement, Bethesda tells the release date of BRINK. The game will ship in North America on May 17, with Europe and Australia following later that same week on May 20.



Source: Bethesda press announcement
by: gamingpalace.de