Quote Originally Posted by Edewen View Post
They don't do it because of the shit show it causes.

Story is a big thing with this game. Ive seen fcs break apart because of people who rushed to lvl and spoil the end of HW story. People are assholes and this is their game. They take pride in it as they should and dont need some asshat without any accountability ruining it for others before it is live. Same reason there was a strict NDA for beta.

PTR's have nothing to do with lore or story. The entire purpose of a PTR is entirely to test classes/jobs and see how they perform at max level and report bugs and give feedback regarding said classes/jobs so that they can balance/fix them before the expansion launches. The developers in FFXIV are really good about implementing changes and adjustments to classes/jobs that need them in comparison to other mmo's that mostly use PTR's to more easily locate and fix bugs. I don't really think PTR's are needed in this game as badly as other mmo's, but it would help curve all of the ridiculous knee-jerk responses to job changes despite the fact that no one has any data or evidence how said jobs are going to perform at max level.