How does joining beta tests fit in with this? Seems to me that someone truly anticipating a game to this extent will try to get in to at least the open beta, if not closed beta. Wouldn't that potentially change the anticipation, if it was better / w…
This turned out to be a little long-winded, but hopefully it's vaguely interesting.
I don't think alt-itis is a problem at all - at least not in CoH. Maybe in other games, but it was a HUGE strength of CoH.
You seem to make the argument that al…