Crowd source new character testing
@CG_Erik You said upon a new character release the amount of hours put in by players overcame the amount of hours put in by CG very quickly. Why not use a sort of beta testing to work out issues with ...
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CG_Erik wrote:
The reality is, as we had the opportunity to discuss with many of you at Celebration, that within the first hour of a character going live the community has eclipsed the total number of hours that we’ve been able to test - and many times over.
None of this is an excuse, it’s our job, and we will continue to work as hard as possible to ensure we minimize these issues as much as possible. There are a number of changes we’re considering making to the testing process - see: Carrie’s recent overtures about our intention to potentially expand our balancing process to something akin to a Public Test Server that you see in complicated games like MMOs.
@IgorconQueso Yes - Erik said this exact thing. Emphasis mine.
