What if you ran a beta and no one came?

A few weeks ago I signed up for the Red Faction: Guerrilla beta, which was easy enough to do.  After downloading the game, I quickly tried to see who was playing (and this was within the first day or two of the beta being opened up).  As it turned out, only one other person was playing, and as you need 8 to start a game, I was unable to try it out.  It was pretty late, though, so I figured I should just try again at a better time.

Well, I’ve now tried 3 more times since then at different times and on different days and I have still not been able to try this game out.  Only once did it find enough people to purportedly start the game, but then as soon as the game started, it ended as there was some weird connection issue and everyone dropped.  Trying to restart the game after that resulted in the same problem as before… no one else was playing.  I finally just tried again a few moments ago and was only matched up with 1 single other person… again, not enough to start a game.

So, Volition… is this really a helpful beta to you?  Not only does it obviously defeat the purpose of a beta (you know, to quash bugs and balance the game), but this is terrible marketing.  For some reason, the beta is now closed.  If they really want to tease people with the game, maybe they should open it back up again so, you know, there would actually be enough people to play the game.