SoE locking threads on main forums about their "beta" Secret. You are still in beta!

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by NewSith

They will not. I'm under the impression that devs are starting to consider the playerbase to be mindless sheep (or mice) to conduct testing upon.

What I am saying is - it's way more demonstrative when testing it on live servers, that's what they think, I am quite sure.

Wrong, actually:

Originally Posted by lordprinceps, post: 813010, member: 76094

Title: [Suggestion] take a page from many other games SOE, create a testing server

seeing as how many people are really angry about game change 1, and the numerous other patches you have pushed, i just have a simple request.
-put all new game builds onto 1-3 dedicated testing servers before releasing publicly
-add in a survey function to the testing servers
-for every 5 sessions of PS2 someone plays in testing, they must complete one survey, or risked being banned from testing
-listen to player feedback on the testing server, and do one of two things
--if the build receives negative feedback, tweak it, and put it back on testing to see how the changes work
--if it gets positive feedback, push it to public

to be honest, im surprised you guys havnt done this yet.

Originally Posted by RadarX, post: 813606, member: 11

We agree. It's why we are in the process of preparing one. We don't have a solid ETA yet but expect it in the very near future.

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/i...-server.65351/