Unacceptable

[Anjou]

Does anyone else here agree that this maintenance would not be happening if they had reviewed what was being put into the server? I really think that to make this right and all of this clusterfuck gets put to rest, people who were in the middle of things like reives get reimbursed. They can pull w/e excuse they want to, but it's not fair to people who lost stuff they worked for due to a maintenance that was not advertised in advance.

I myself do not do SoA content, I speak for those who are upset (Because truth be told, there are quite a few here I'm sure) over this whole situation, and it'd be bad practice if they didn't get their stuff back. Bayld can be refunded due to number values pertaining to each character, there is no way they can worm out of that fact. If they do not do something to make this right to the people they SCREWED over, I don't understand why people still continue to play this game.

Deleting this will only prove my point they have lost touch with their entire playerbase.

Does anyone else here agree that people who lost things due to poor foresight in terms of the updates should have their rightful property refunded to them?

[Dragomair]

I don't even have the SoA expansion. Sucks that I can't access a game that I have to pay for even though the issue won't effect me at all. Obviously, they should start implementing all updates on the test server beforehand and get a dedicated team to test for bugs. Currently, the only reasons that nobody uses the test server are: You still have to pay your subscription but things you do on the test server don't help your main-server character at all. Second reason: You have no goals on the test server. You can't even craft unless you track down every synth material yourself. (Maybe they should regularly stock the AH on the test servers?)

Even if they did implement on the test server, there are not a sufficient amount of people testing that material to find bugs, also, the SoA expansion isn't even on the test server (New jobs and items are, but not areas.)

[Anjou]

I'm sorry but that's just a disgrace in terms of a test server.

[Dragomair]

I'm sorry but that's just a disgrace in terms of a test server.

Like a few people on the forums have said: "They're unpaid beta testers. You get what you paid for."

[MDenham]

...also, the SoA expansion isn't even on the test server (New jobs and items are, but not areas.)

Correction: SoA is on the test server, with the exception of zones added in the most recent update (including Mog Gardens).

However, testing any of the newer things on the test server (for example, seeing the item levels on gear) requires you to re-sync your test server character after having obtained one of the pieces in question on live servers. It's kind of ridiculous at this point, and I enjoy just going onto the test server to derp around normally.

Realistically, at about the same time as the update earlier this week, they should have rolled out at least some of the August update to the test server for us to test.

[Dragomair]

Correction: SoA is on the test server, with the exception of zones added in the most recent update (including Mog Gardens).

However, testing any of the newer things on the test server (for example, seeing the item levels on gear) requires you to re-sync your test server character after having obtained one of the pieces in question on live servers. It's kind of ridiculous at this point, and I enjoy just going onto the test server to derp around normally.

Realistically, at about the same time as the update earlier this week, they should have rolled out at least some of the August update to the test server for us to test.

How do you resync your test server character?

[MDenham]

How do you resync your test server character?

Delete it and re-apply for the test server, basically.

[Dragomair]

Delete it and re-apply for the test server, basically.

Meh, not worth it.

[MDenham]

You don't have to reinstall things to do that; it's basically "delete, reapply, wait 10-15 minutes, go back to derping around on the test server".

You can even spend those 10-15 minutes doing something pointless on the live servers that you don't mind losing on the test server, like puttering about in your garden.