Beta?

[imgod2u]

I read somewhere that an October release was to be expected. Now, 2 months may seem like a long time to wait, but shouldn't a beta of Civ3 be out long before that for bug testing? Unless they're gonna release the game without a beta test, which would be very unwise. Anyone know if a beta testing program has started?

[Zanzin]

Firaxis isn't doing a "public" beta, if that's what you mean. They're (no doubt) doing plenty of inhouse testing and working closely with the Quality Assurance team at Infogrames as well

[Sabre2th]

Firaxis will be moving into Beta very soon, if they haven't already. Unfortunately, there is no public beta

[tniem]

This is from Jeff Briggs, the man heading up developement.

We're on our third alpha version at the time of this writing. Civ III should hit beta within 2-3 weeks.

That was about a week ago that he said that. I would think it should be moving into beta mid-August giving them almost a month and a half to beta test before going gold. Plenty of time. It will be out this October, it appears. I have been wrong in all past discussions of when the game would be released.

[Solver]

Release date has always been mentioned as Q4 2001, since the begginning. So, looks like it will be October, or perhaps November.