{"id":2154,"date":"2017-01-24T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T17:22:47","slug":"open-betas-an-industry-on-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Open Betas, an industry on it&#8217;s own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being amongst the first batch of gamers to jump into a new title is always good\u2026.especially when it\u2019s free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/recon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2151 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/recon-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/recon-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/recon.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Beta releases, Open or Closed, are usually only available for a limited time to Elite players or pre-orders customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Essential-Facts-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">$23 Billion spent on Games in 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A win-win as the publishers get a chance to really test on the public and gamers get a fresh insider look.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve signed up for Ghost Recon but it\u2019s a bit of a lottery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last of Us 2<\/strong> may not have an actual Beta but it tops as one of the Most Anticipated Games of 2017 so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lastofus2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2152\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lastofus2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lastofus2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lastofus2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lastofus2.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being amongst the first batch of gamers to jump into a new title is always good\u2026.especially when it\u2019s free. Beta releases, Open or Closed, are usually only available for a limited time to Elite players or pre-orders customers. $23 Billion spent on Games in 2015 A win-win as the publishers get a chance to really &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Betas, an industry on it&#8217;s own&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game_testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}