Quote Originally Posted by Catwho View Post
Well, they'll have done a lot of the testing already on their sandbox servers, in regards to merging alliances in zones and such. The time to fix major problems with that was weeks ago.

Ideally, they'll fire it up and it'll work as intended. If it doesn't work as intended, it means they forgot to load another component from the merged build or someone dropped the ball horribly during alpha testing last month and would likely get fired.
Yes, the main testing should definitely done and they should know everything is working on the test/sandbox server.

However, patches are unpredictable. Believe me when I say, a part of the patch not applying properly can literally mean hours of lost time. Ideally, it should work. Realistically, something will always go wrong.