I wouldn't read too much into it. A friend of mine who works at Sony was telling me that the Beta is literally almost exclusively for testing scalability on a number of different server architectures, and very little attention has been paid so far to making the Beta smoothly playable, but he claims the Alpha is much further ahead.
Good to hear.I thing this is one that I might actually pick up when it comes out at the end of the month.
Pretty fun so far,even though I don't really lean towards FPSs.I'm really curious to see how bigger maps and a full 256 players per map works out.