Right now, the Halo 3 beta is going on, getting mostly positive feedback, with the exception of feedback about graphics. But, I'm not here to rate the beta of that game. The point is, If you want the beta, you can get it by simply buying a copy of Crackdown (until a certain date where they stop giving you codes). Microsoft does Betas right. Look at Office 2007 or Windows vista for example. Any person could get into those betas, until they reached a certain number.

Thats not the case with Sony. I have applied for multiple game betas that were labelled "open betas", most recently the Warhawk beta. I applied like moments after the form came online. I checked my email every day, and never got instructions for it like they said I would get. Then I looked closer at the page. It said "fill out the form for a chance to be accepted to the open beta". Please sony, tell me what the hell an open beta is, IF YOU APPLY FOR IT AND THE APPLICANTS ARE HAND PICKED TO ACTUALLY USE THE BETA! This is exaclty the kind of crap that sony is pulling to make people pissed off. This is what they are planning to do for the upcoming Home beta. Plus, when I contacted sony asking them what criteria they use, they said they couldn't give the info to me.

If you ask me, its a crap method that they should ditch. Plus, you would think they would let everyone into the beta, on account of the fact that everyone who has a PS3 is bored to death playing the only 2 good games that currently exist.