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They can claim whatever they want. But if it's publicly available then it's a beta regardless of what arbitrary name they give it.
If it was alpha it should be free.
The industry definitions of alpha/beta disagree with you.
Words have meaning and you’re using them wrong.
You are correct words do have a meaning. A weird thing for you to bring up since you're the one incorrectly applying labels here.
Alpha products are available only for internal review, they are not available for public release they are not intended to be viewed by the general populace.
If you're charging people money for it then it can't be an alpha because now it's an external product not an internal sample.
In video games development, and more broadly in software development, Alpha state refers to a feature incomplete and largely untested state and is unrelated to internal/external sales, review, testing or release.
While outside of recent trends, particularly in crowd funded games development, alpha releases to customers for paid software are less common they do occur and don't have any bearing on the alpha state of the software.
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And for Beta
I am both a qualified software developer, and have worked in the video games industry. I hope you have learnt something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle
Sorry bud you're just wrong on that one.
It's been in development hell for over 10 years it's not going anywhere slowly. They barely even have a product.
Okay? But it's still definitely an alpha.
Okay whatever you need to say to justify it to yourself.
This game came out before I went into university I've now graduated and could have completed a doctorate and it still wouldn't have been in beta yet. Is the development studio near black hole or something what's going on here.