Quote Originally Posted by Aegrus View Post
And you know what? Even using your horrible anecdotal claim, that is still more than ffxiv catches with their lack of PTR servers. Clearly you don't read patchnotes during the ptr and see what all goes wrong and is adjusted before it goes live. You are too blinded by your fan-goggles to realize the value of a PTR and don't realize that the issues you say "plague" wow are relatively minor since the process is pretty polished and anything minor that's still there stands out.
I realize the value of a PTR. I played on it most any time I could. I was in all but the WoD beta thanks to being an addon programmer. When you find a game breaking bug, and report it and it gets so many replies on the forums that the thread nearly gets locked and that bug is still in live, you start to question what people are thinking. Then it happens over and over when there is a PTR. The problem is, from an observation, they rush the patches too fast, don't have time to fix things and then work on it after the live is pushed to the servers. I don't blame the devs, I don't blame the PTR. I blame the company, Blizzard.