Wait... No Public Test Server for this game?

[Roris]

You'd think it be like it is but it don't do, bet if the game had one since release people would be praising its inclusion instead of not wanting one because it doesn't have one, and adding one would mean acknowledging the game has faults and of course this game is perfect. The game could really use one to test all the stuff that needs a bigger number of players going through it to iron out more bugs before going public, limit it to application like XI does and maybe slap an NDA like some other games do.

[Amaret]

That is one of the reasons why PTS's should exist. Something may look good on paper, send it to the PTS, see what the community does with it, then make the fixes before things mess up the live servers.

Because ppl go farm Atma / Hunt for hours on a test server...

[Nutz]

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.

[indira]

hunts in general need to go back to the old day style of killing big open world bosses, but first they need to expand the world make bigger scary zones right now its way too small and safe making it way to accessible for anyone. NM type mobs is an old system need to be backed up that way. watch SE make everything pop NM like abyssea.

we dont need no point caps make the content hard enough there wont be a zerg. since this is not mandatory not everyone should beable to attack them.