{"id":3210,"date":"2010-10-09T05:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2010-10-09T05:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T10:45:52","slug":"plus-finally-offers-betas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/10\/09\/plus-finally-offers-betas\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus Finally Offers Betas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest gripes by the PlayStation Plus \u201ccommunity\u201d has been the lack of betas.  Upon the initial introduction of the Plus service, Plus subscribers were led to believe that they would get plenty of exclusive beta offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Over the first three months, the betas did not show up, and Sony backtracked a little on the wording of what they intended.  Apparently only selected Plus users would have an opportunity to land some of those beta experiences.  Bellyaching ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has responded by working with Ubisoft to allow all Plus subscribers access to the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-beta-open-to-all-playstation-plus-subscribers-today\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-beta-open-to-all-playstation-plus-subscribers-today\/', 'Assassin\u2019s Creed Brotherhood');\" target=\"_blank\">Assassin\u2019s Creed Brotherhood<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-beta-open-to-all-playstation-plus-subscribers-today\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-beta-open-to-all-playstation-plus-subscribers-today\/', ' beta');\" target=\"_blank\"> beta<\/a>.  Let the rejoicing sound from coast to coast.  In a further attempt to appease Plus subscribers, later this month 5000 lucky Plus subscribers will land a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/killzone-3-beta-starts-on-october-25th-here%E2%80%99s-your-chance-to-get-in\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/killzone-3-beta-starts-on-october-25th-here%E2%80%99s-your-chance-to-get-in\/', 'Killzone 3');\" target=\"_blank\">Killzone 3<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/killzone-3-beta-starts-on-october-25th-here%E2%80%99s-your-chance-to-get-in\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2010\/10\/07\/killzone-3-beta-starts-on-october-25th-here%E2%80%99s-your-chance-to-get-in\/', ' early access beta');\" target=\"_blank\"> early access beta<\/a>.  Happy days.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t bother to read the user agreement to see if I could post on the <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Brotherhood<\/em> beta, so I will refrain from offering up some opinions right now.  I will say that I have never played an <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em> game, which obviously means this is not the typical type of game I will pick up.  I do love the fact that I have access to the beta.  New experiences are always a Plus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest gripes by the PlayStation Plus \u201ccommunity\u201d has been the lack of betas. Upon the initial introduction of the Plus service, Plus subscribers were led to believe that they would get plenty of exclusive beta offerings. Over the first three months, the betas did not show up, and Sony backtracked a little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/10\/09\/plus-finally-offers-betas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plus Finally Offers Betas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}