Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I'd prefer it if they didn't create a PTR. The story is a huge draw for many players, myself included - and many testers would just spoil everything unless some very strict NDA's were in place...and good luck getting the average gamer to recognise the legal weight of breaching one of those. It's not as if the game isn't polished, anyway - a few issues here and there, sure, but they're fixed pretty quickly.
FFXIV does have beta tests for players, and from what I've learned from a couple who have participated in them, there is definitely a strict NDA involved with it.

The PTR would more or less be a means of testing jobs and classes first and foremost. Not only is story something that doesn't exactly need much for testing, but I've already explained in this thread how jobs and classes can be tested even before they get to any story components. Only tweak would be having an option for players who want to not see any elements of the story is to have an option after the job/class test that can either end the test early or to carry on with the transition into the current storyline.