Hawken Still Beta, Early Access

It just marketing non-sense. Hawken has been out for 2 years. Online games frequently change as they age after having become available.

Huh..?

I started playing this game a few weeks ago. Plenty of players on US East servers. Fun game imo.

Gmail was in beta for over 5 years. :D

It doesn't matter how they call it, betas that you have to pay for/ that have a fully functional item shop are finished products and you should treat them like that

Remaining in beta indefinitely is a common tactic used be F2P developers (and now early access devs as well) to deflect blame for anything that goes wrong with the game.

I haven't played Hawkin, but I would wager that they use the same tactic so that whenever someone on the forum says, "This feature has been broken for years," the fanboys will rally and yell that the game is in beta and that's why it's okay to leave the game in a permanently or long-term broken state.

It's amazing the kind of stupid things fanboys will actually defend once they have put some money into a free-to-play game and delude themselves into thinking that they are savvy consumers. I'm looking at you: Mechwarrior Online community.