Most of the problems people have with various systems would not have been caught on a test server. People simply won't subject themselves to the same level of grind on a test server as they will on the actual game. There would be a much lower population testing hunts and after a few runs people would go and try something else because rather than hunts having fantastic rewards, they'd effectively have no rewards. Maybe some red flags would have sprouted over atma, simply because people may have spent a bit of time trying to get them and several would fail. I don't mind at all the lack of a test server. There really aren't that many features that greatly benefit from allowing a small portion of the community (in practice if not principle) to test them out before they're live. The sample size is too small, people don't exhibit the same behavior, and there are no stakes.