6-month bump.
Edited by BreadBull on May 9th 2019 at 4:54:22 AM
Looking at the original discussion and at the edits you made, I'm worried you jumped the gun a bit. There was discussion almost a year ago at this point, with someone providing some possible guidelines, then discussion died down for a few months before you created this thread, then nothing for six months before you brought it up in time to create a bunch of edits to fit those guidelines. At no point did any moderators join in the discussion, making me think that they didn't think it was worth changing or cleaning up.
While I commend you for fixing up the Obvious Beta page proper, I'm worried that you might see some backlash over this. If there is backlash, the best case scenario would be if they simply undo the changes you made. Then again, I've had plenty of trouble with authority figures (moderators or otherwise) that tainted my view, so you might be fine.
Well, not really - I know it looks like I deleted a lot of stuff from the page history, but that was just me moving a bunch of examples off of main and into their own subpage. All I actually did was add a note in bold.
A discussion on this trope was made here, but that kinda stalled. Started a TRS thread but apparently this should go under projects instead so here goes.
The problem with Obvious Beta is that there is a bit of YMMV on this. According to the other wiki Beta testing is supposed to be for games that are "feature complete", ie it has all the things developers wanted in the game and just needs bug testing. Unfortunately time has caused the phrase to shift slightly in meaning and I myself would classify a game as Obvious Beta only when it is nigh-impossible to play mainly due to poor optimisation, being unstable and Game-Breaking Bugs. Also, some folks seem to think that this is for any game that is in beta, even if they don't try to hide the fact at all (which this trope is).
The page image probably isn't helping, showing an image (missing textures) that according to the strict definition isn't in beta.
Wick check:
In summary: Due to a shift in semantics, as well as being slightly ambiguous in the first place what Obvious Beta means has a lot of YMMV. You reading this might disagree with my analysis / wick check, which is exactly the problem. My suggestions for this trope would be
A. An example cleanup of those that clearly don't fit, as well as ZCEs;
B. Rename the trope to something like Unfinished Release, and perhaps
C. Start a YMMV TLP (now here) for works that people feel are unfinished and should not be published, but is.
Alternatively, we just move Obvious Beta to a YMMV trope.
Edited by BreadBull on Jan 30th 2019 at 5:50:21 AM