No Public Beta Testing: good bad for the game?

[Misutoraru]

So the complaint everyone is making is if there is a PTR then I will be spoiled.

But, you don't have to look up anything on the PTR, play the PTR, or look up any leaks. If you do so then you have chosen to spoil the content for yourself.

Again the PTR is a tool more for the devs than the players anyways. If they devs need it and can utilize it good, if they don't then they likely won't implement one.



MMOs cater to the loudest, as they then to be the larger group. This game has more casual content and heavily caters to casual players as they are the loudest and largest group. Which is why harder content and class design has suffered a bit over the past two expansions in this game. But the point is none of that had to do with a PTR.

It is the balance and overall direction that I am worry about
It really depend on how dev act on “feed back”.
I must say I do not have great experience when dev use public testing and players feedback on public test, especially when multiple fractions in game that involve some competition.
Always the most played job/fraction get “favourite treatment”.
Player’s feedbacks in forum only reflects a tiny portion of the whole player community and usually the most vocal one.

I am fine with public testing if it is only to find bugs and server stress test, or dev using it to collect and fine tune “numbers”. When it is use to get feedback from players, it get complicated.
Of cause it is always good to have dev taking player feedbacks into consideration, it need to handle carefully.