no update info?

[Murugan]

The new test server for XI seems to be working out well enough. From what I've read everyone was pleased with how well the patch yesterday went off, something contributed by many to the existence of the test server.

You can't have a test server in my opinion on a game that does not carry a subscription fee. The value of the feedback would be extremely subpar as you'd have people like Giftfhorse potentially using it as another platform to troll the game when they do not actually play/plan on playing the game after subscription fees resume.

It would just result in them taking even longer to develop content as they have to sort through all the useless feedback. A great deal of time is wasted in beta doing this, but even then you still have a screening process in place and can even kick testers out of the program. They can't do this with a product people played for simply because they are slowing down/interfering with the testing process.

[Azurus]

You can't have a test server in my opinion on a game that does not carry a subscription fee. The value of the feedback would be extremely subpar as you'd have people like Giftfhorse potentially using it as another platform to troll the game when they do not actually play/plan on playing the game after subscription fees resume.

It would just result in them taking even longer to develop content as they have to sort through all the useless feedback. A great deal of time is wasted in beta doing this, but even then you still have a screening process in place and can even kick testers out of the program. They can't do this with a product people played for simply because they are slowing down/interfering with the testing process.

and a personal attack on someone not even in this thread is definitely not trolling...but anyway a test server would be nice but i don't think it is necessary.