future beta tests?
As far as I know this is the first BETA test of many more to come. They start off with a rather small number of testers and will increase that number over time with more tests.
They want the players to test it quite a bit so that most of the bugs can be fixed and they can still make possible changes based on player feedback on smaller matters.
Guardians of the Silver Dragons – Piken Square
I’m absolutely sure there will be more. The original game had a closed beta (with NDA), followed by three open beta weekends (by invite, but no NDA), followed by several stress tests of various lengths.
They’ll want to test all the major features, so they’ll have more betas as more things get into finished enough form to test.