Being just a 'talking head' and not in any way very 'technical' I'm like the least qualified person to comment on this, but honestly 'Rocket' comes off as kind of amateurish. I don't really like his excessively cocky attitude and I strongly dislike his 'Steve Jobs of the undead wasteland' approach to presenting and marketing his product. Even BF2PR/A2PR (admittedly in beta) managed to release stable versions after excessive private testing. If he wanted to grandfather in his patching after vetting the new changes, it would probably work out better for everybody. In my opinion he's hurting the credibility of his brand by presenting an imperfect product where nothing you do matters. I understand nothing we do in any video games matters in the grand 'life' scheme of things, but if he's not ready to give people the reward for investing time/effort in his product and instead prefers to kick us while we're down, I become increasingly less interested in buying or recommending future versions. I don't enjoy investing 60+ hours only to have to turn around and do it again. People get paid to do what we do, alpha-testing is gruelling and demeaning and it saps away at your enjoyment. I forsee that almost 90% of the people who are playing right now will have 'played themselves out' by the time there's anything close to a stable, standalone release. By giving everyone the chance to watch him paint the painting, we have a lot less interest in going to see it in a gallery. The unfortunate side effect of his marketing model is that people will (rightly so) evaluate the community, game and developer in an emergent fashion rather than reacting to a controlled situation with a polished release, engaging trailer and carefully crafted media strategy.