WAR Community Poll: PTS

[Anglakhel]

It is time for another WAR Community Poll brought to you by WAR Vault and Warhammer Alliance. After you vote here, make sure you jump on over and check out the results on WAR Vaults poll.

The Public Test Server, or PTS, has been getting a lot of attention lately. With the latest round of testing having just been wrapped up and Mythic's promise that the 1.3 C&C Balance Changes will be coming to the PTS soon, we want to know what your approach to the PTS is.

Why do you login to the PTS?

Please let us know how you voted and most importantly, why. Was there an option missing? Any other opinions you want to share about the PTS?

[Talc]

honesty, preview new content mostly.
That's what gets me on to PTS, but once I'm there I do test abilities and see if they are working according to their tooltips and I try to break the interface.

However, I was signed up for beta since the start and never got in. I don't think I should do the job of core testers and hardcore players who can crunch the numbers.

They should be using our monthly payments to pay for more closed testers.

[Siberwulf]

Originally Posted by Talc

honesty, preview new content mostly.
That's what gets me on to PTS, but once I'm there I do test abilities and see if they are working according to their tooltips and I try to break the interface.

However, I was signed up for beta since the start and never got in. I don't think I should do the job of core testers and hardcore players who can crunch the numbers.

They should be using our monthly payments to pay for more closed testers.

Heh, little bit o' clarity inc:

1. Core Testers aren't explicit number crunchers, really. Some of us are, some of us aren't.
2. It is impossible for us to test large scale things such as balance and whatnot. There's not a massive force of us out there, contrary to popular belief.
3. Closed Testers would probably be the QA dept. I think every company out there would love to have a bottomless pit of QA people, but financially that just isn't a reality. The Quality of your QA is also as vital as the Quantity of your QA. More is not always better.

Carry on

[Banetek]

I was really upset they decided to treat the new zone like a pacmac game when it switchs sides from one side to the other.

Instead of encouraging rvr, its going to actualy discourage it by one side ( the side who lost the zone ) to run and hide from the other side.. for fear of being respawned back in altdorf...

[Siberwulf]

Originally Posted by Banetek

I was really upset they decided to treat the new zone like a pacmac game when it switchs sides from one side to the other.

Instead of encouraging rvr, its going to actualy discourage it by one side ( the side who lost the zone ) to run and hide from the other side.. for fear of being respawned back in altdorf...

Where are they going to run though? There are no safe spots.

[VasDrakken]

Need an option for multiple choices. I log onto to the PTS to see the changes, help fnd bugs so my live char does not have to deal with them and to see new content because I like to see what is coming as much as the next person.

[Heavenfall]

I voted find bugs. Like I posted before, the primary reason for me to log on to PTS is to find out if the many bugs with my class have been fixed. They rarely have been, so I report them again and log off after a brief look at the new content.

I just cannot bring myself to test and report new problems, when old bugs I reported 50 times are still in the game.

When it comes to fixing bugs, Mythic suffers from a bad case of selective hearing.

[Vegetta]

find bugs and test balance

[Onji]

I dont go there at all!
There are people way better than me regarding finding and more importantly, can explain what the bug is about (explaining, one of my weakest parts :X ) and really if there is new content coming, I wanna play it for the first time with my main, not some boosted random lvl 40 on a test server.

[LeonHart]

Voted for "Preview New Content" as that is my #1 reason, however "Find Bugs", "Earn Incentives " and "Test Balance " are in there too

[Talc]

Originally Posted by Banetek

I was really upset they decided to treat the new zone like a pacmac game when it switchs sides from one side to the other.

Instead of encouraging rvr, its going to actualy discourage it by one side ( the side who lost the zone ) to run and hide from the other side.. for fear of being respawned back in altdorf...

um... i think hiding is actually a good idea. my guild warbands always hide and wait to ambush the zerg stragglers.

[Talc]

Originally Posted by Siberwulf

Heh, little bit o' clarity inc:

1. Core Testers aren't explicit number crunchers, really. Some of us are, some of us aren't.
2. It is impossible for us to test large scale things such as balance and whatnot. There's not a massive force of us out there, contrary to popular belief.
3. Closed Testers would probably be the QA dept. I think every company out there would love to have a bottomless pit of QA people, but financially that just isn't a reality. The Quality of your QA is also as vital as the Quantity of your QA. More is not always better.

Carry on

You didn't need to clarify anything. I understood all of that before you posted. However, maybe if they had let more beta testers in, then they would have seen how crappy server performance was (for one example).

I appreciate the free expansion, don't get me wrong, but EA is either not giving mythic enough funding, or they have been cutting corners since the start. Personally, I'm running out of patients with the mythic team. Delaying the C&C from 1.3 was the first thing they've done in a while that made me actually think they listen to feedback.

[Svengrom]

I dont log in any more, I waited for more than a year to get selected for a beta key and i never did, ( neither did the 8 real life mates i know who waited) I would have tested the game all they wanted back then, hours each night of the week and long periods at weekends.

Now im paying them to play and they want me to NOW test the game after 9 months? Also with very little incentive if any. i actualy feel insulted.

[itnas]

Mythic has proved that there is no point in PTSing their game, SWs have reported bugs in some 1st choice tacts for each path and they have literaly ignore them and let them go live, not just that they ignore ingame reports from PTS but also the amount of posts made on their official forums....

[Moger]

Mostly preview new content now and see how patch will change things in the past was more to look for bugs/see if advertised fixes actually work. I have reported bugs but always see every single one in the live release I am now of the opinion it is pointless to test on the test server or bother sending in bug reports. They fall on deaf ears and I get the same bugs when the version goes live. Live is mythic's beta testing. They only seem to address the bugs once the new code is on the live servers.