Because everyone pays the same subscription.

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Which is why a player populated test server has great merit.

RIFT did it and people loved playing on it to see the new stuff and to report the problems before the code got pushed to the live servers.

People don't play on test servers the same way they do in game because that's not where their real characters are. Nobody would spend 18 hours a day for a week spamming hunts in a network of linkshells on test servers because they won't see any benefit; their main character is on X server.

I was waiting for the obligatory post patch complaint/rant thread. Just like clockwork.

Did you miss the other 50?