Great reply. My counter to this argument would be that you can launch the game as a MVG in an unbranded, low-fi way that wouldn't jeopardize your actual game's

Great reply. My counter to this argument would be that you can launch the game as a MVG in an unbranded, low-fi way that wouldn't jeopardize your actual game's launch. Instead, you'd just have a crappy game that people would test, and then you'd kill it and launch the new game without any association to the test game at all.