It's not useless because on the first beta weekend only people who got invites could play. People who pre-ordered the game would get an invite plus 4 others to give to friends.
On the second beta weekend it was free for anyone with a PSN account.
On Steam, the number of people playing doubled from ~1000 to ~2000 on the second weekend. It's quite jarring that these numbers actually went 8% down on the same conditions for Playstation users.
Skill Up says these results probably mean the game is DoA as it is, and it should be postponed after a revamp with a new marketing push down the line.
I tend to agree.
Definitely.
Delay the game to make it more appealing to all masses.
Also F2P will help.
Honestly I doubt either will happen.