So, the upcoming alpha is essentially beta?

I understand that companies define these things differently - so I wonder what the deal is here.

According to Swen's blog this game has an unavoidable deadline of the 28th February due to pre-existing contracts (distributers I assume), so there's not a huge amount of time to release both alpha & beta, and also account for all the feedback. The only reason I'm not worried is that it appears development is reaching the polishing stage anyway and that the alpha/beta release is going to be in a relatively highly polished state already. Which is a smart move I think when releasing to 'the crowd' rather than a select group of testers.

Am I mistaken in this assessment? Is there only going to be one pre-release version? It would be interesting and accountable of Larian to inform us backers a bit better about their release schedule. I know Swen promised in the last update that it's all on track. I'd just like to know more about what that track is.


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