Quote Originally Posted by Awarewolf View Post
I am curious how this community feels about the lack of a public beta test realm. On one hand, I see the advantages: it’s FUN for us all to figure out the story and jobs on our own. I had so much fun figuring out how things changed and hopefully improved for my favorite classes. It even got me to try Bard, which is my favorite job this expansion.

But, it also meant that so many jobs were released with clearly unfair advantages and disadvantages compared to other jobs, something that would come up on a PTR.

Do you feel FFXIV content would improve for having a PTR?

I think it would, but only if they let us test the new job/job changes on the previous expansion’s content. I don’t want story spoilers or to even see a new zone.
WOW has suffered from having a PTR for years. Not only does it blow the entire expansion a year in advance, but they ignore feedback on top of that. Plus you can't expect most of that feedback to even be good. There are people who can't figure out mob facing in a game that has like three different indicators that show you where it's pointed, and they're going to give feedback about mob facing that is a huge waste of time. Now expand that to every other facet of the game.

SE has professional QA, probably the best QA in the entire world right now. A PTR would only be seen as a negative, from every angle.