Test server Please!

[SogiYa]

look, we all love that you guys are doing ... things. I just wish you were more careful about it. blasting off patches without any public trial is just asking for disaster and having to re-tweak your tweaks that you just released.

case in point: the monster sizes. don't get me wrong, I like the bigger "little" mobs, but those things are just a bit TOO big now. it's ridiculous how their size is way out of proportion to their power.

something like this is kinda irrelevant to the big picture, but it's still a minor annoyance in the swarm of other minor annoyances and at some time your just going to end up having to rescale them down anyway. this is just one example of many and while it's kinda like all the servers right now are test servers, your "testing" on peoples permanent characters and it's agitating the hell out of people.

at least thats my theory on why people get so up in arms over your changes ...

if you guys adopt this model:
"development -> test server for player feedback -> revision of content based on that feedback -> deployment to the live servers."

I guarantee that you will have a lot less unhappy players.

[Kurokikaze]

I second this motion.

I feel that the developers usually miss the opportunity to nip bugs before they go live more often that is common for MMOs. This will help immensely with QAing updates before they go live; so we don't get disappearing HP bars for mobs during Sidequests...

Theres a few other things after patches that tend to leave me wondering "Did they play this? How did they miss this??"

[Akumu]

They talked about possible test servers but they don't want to prepare a world for say 3000 people and only a few hundred tests it. I believe that was why they released the Q&A type surveys.

[Verecund]

They talked about possible test servers but they don't want to prepare a world for say 3000 people and only a few hundred tests it. I believe that was why they released the Q&A type surveys.

Hahaha!

I don't think their problem would be too few people playing on the test server... I think at this point most people still playing would be trying to bust down the door getting into that server XD

[Rentahamster]

I'm kinda surprised that only one person has made a thread so far asking for a test server. This would help a lot, considering that the game is still in beta, for all intents and purposes.

[Randis]

i think it is save to say that ATM every server is a test server.

[Reika]

i think it is save to say that ATM every server is a test server.

Hah. I was about to say this...

[Shikaree]

Right now patches are being pushed out too fast of each other to make use of a test server. I'd say once everything gets straightened out and 3 month gap patches become the norm, this would be a good idea.

[Neptune]

I think we really need a test server to preview this new battle system, the job system, or the dungeons. I feel like Square Enix hasn't learned the lesson of not getting player feedback. Why rock the boat even further now? Pull out that wallet, give us a test server, and let the remaining players evaluate your work before you change a bunch of systems that no reviewer ever complained about.

[Munba]

Totally agree with this. We could help in every way possibile and better with test servers.