I want YOU, to play test the game for ME. Thank you soldier.
Few things:
1) You are not forced to playtest the alpha builds
2) The playtests are free and can definitely be very interesting for CoH fans
3) If Relic would extensively test CoH3 to a scale & effectiveness of the public playtests with 10s of thousands of playtesters, they would waste an insane amount of time. By having to spend less time into testing, they can spend more into actually coding & developing the game
4) Of course Relic isn't giving access to the builds because they're good samaritans but because it's incredibly helpful for finding bugs and getting feedback, we all know that. But would you rather not have the tests and then get a worse game at launch?
"But but, studios like Rockstar Games are also capable of launching finished & complete products without playtests!!"
Yes, and they also have around 30 to 50 times the budget available