Version numbers are absolutely meaningless. How long has Mac OS been at 10? Netscape skipped version 5 just to psychologically compete with IE. Tex will never reach version 3.2, it may someday reach 3.14159265359.
Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. It generally begins when the software is feature complete. Software in the beta phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, as well as speed/performance issues and may still cause crashes or data loss. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing. The process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release and this is typically the first time that the software is available outside of the organization that developed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_beta#Beta
It fits most of that meaning. I do not think that the Dev’s have the full gameplay thing ironed out enough to stick with one thing and make that the defining point of gameplay so as to say the game is ready for full release
Written a few of months ago: http://star-conflict.com/en/news/93/current/ “The game is in open beta, as I mentioned,…”
Hey, you can join open beta now! http://gaijinent.com/en/games/starconflict/
Saying that the latter link is by Gaijin, I seriously doubt that SC is no longer in beta. I rest my case.
With that said, please let us not get off the topic this thread is for. Thank you.
The Star Conflict Release version will be 1.0 or higher, anything before that point is still part of the beta.