Didn't insult you at all.
You are just some random nobody to me. You think you personally having been "involved" in testing somehow reassures me or give me any confidence? Hell no. Especially not know that I see what kind of a person you are.
I seem to remember you making a catastrophically false and stupid comment in relation to some stat the other day on these boards, to which you got immediately corrected. Not impressed really, at all.
If balance is bad in launch, that will have been a direct result of no beta, and also a direct result of you having failed in your testing and feedback.
Thats just how it is. So I would stow your attitude, because if balance is bad, it is you who will be, for good reason, blamed for that, and it will be proof that it did indeed need a separate beta stage.
Yes you did. You basically said that everybody who participated in the alpha and gave feedback is dumb and that you don't trust them with balance. What I meant with that I myself was in the alpha was that the community themselves got to test and give feedback, not to say that I'm this motherfucker who knows how to balance things perfectly. That mistake I made in the other thread was because some modifier shit was changed and to simplify it because I couldn't quite remember what exactly was changed I said that their health got buffed, which is basically what resulted from those changes.
EDIT: What would a beta have changed anyway? Most of the community members that gave feeback and tested were unbiased and looked at everything fairly, I don't see how a beta would make things better than they are now.
And how exactly does not knowing a few stats suddenly make you not know how to balance a game? You don't have to be a stats guru to know how to balance things.