Test Server

[Elexia]

My chief reason for wanting to see a test server is so that 2.0 is vetted for playability by players before release and not after. Basically as long as 2.0 is a hit with players it doesn't matter so much how you get there. We can live without a test server in the interim.

XIV is playable now therefore 2.0 will logically also be playable. What I think you meant the main reason people want a test server is:

"So we can continue to complain and want to change things certain players personally doesn't like about 2.0 before release so you guys can push 2.0 even further away to meet our demands. For example if we find out Crystal Tower is open world, that's not playable, it needs to be instanced!"

That's a bit more accurate than actual playability (It's not a new game, it's a new client.)

Would test server characters start at 50, or some other level depending on the content being tested?

You can adjust your parameters and triggers on a test server that isn't being treated like a glorified sneak peek.

[Geesus]

"So we can continue to complain and want to change things certain players personally doesn't like about 2.0 before release so you guys can push 2.0 even further away to meet our demands. For example if we find out Crystal Tower is open world, that's not playable, it needs to be instanced!"

Actually I think she meant what Delus said:

I would agree with what has been said, a 2.0 test server as soon as the client has been released will be beneficial to both SE and the players, we will get the chance to give feedback, and as long as it is acted upon (unlike the origanal alpha and beta) it should get better reviews.

And I would tend to agree. If the original testers were ignored and Yoshi and the Devs learned from that experience, this would seem to be the logical choice prior to Re-Launch and hopefully a success and not another failure.

I get what your saying Elexia and I would like to believe that WON'T happen with the complaining; now with most of the QQers gone now.

[Mireille]

"So we can continue to complain and want to change things certain players personally doesn't like about 2.0 before release so you guys can push 2.0 even further away to meet our demands. For example if we find out Crystal Tower is open world, that's not playable, it needs to be instanced!"

No I said exactly what it was I meant. I don't want a bunch of new players to play 2.0 for 8 days and then say this sucks and leave the way they did with 1.0. If they accomplish this another way, say by bringing a group of ordinary gamers in house and make them sign NDI's before testing, that's fine too.

Kindly don't put words in my mouth that I didn't say.

[Mireille]

Sorry this was a double post. I thought the first one didn't post. Deleted post contents since it was the same as the first one.