Anyone felt that ZSO should have opened the patch to public testing before it gets pushed live?

Winterstrife

Because this is a pretty *** weekend it turned out to be for me since the patch went live...

• Over-tuned VR content (mobs with double their HP, are you serious?)
• Game breaking quest bugs (as an EP player I'm unable to proceed to the AD story line)
• Endless loading screens
• Memory leaks
• And finally login timeout issues (basically if you logged out now you picking a wildcard chance of not being able to log back in).

Pre-patch while everything wasn't exactly sweet, at least the game was playable... now I'm stuck on the forums looking for solutions to login.

So it got me thinking, had the patch been open for all players test, would such issues have been avoided?

Spiritreaver_ESO

Another poster put that idea forward and i agreed with it there and here.

I think its time to open up the PTS to any player with a valid sub. ZOS will gain tons more testers and that will up the chances of this ...abortion of an update not happening in the future.

Of course the devs would actually have to listen to the feedback they received. And that is no sure bet as i have seen PTS members saying that ZOS has been made aware of several things that still made it to the live servers in the end. And if they aren't gonna listen AND set stuff to rights before version updates like 1.1.2 come down the pipes, well what's the damn point?

Indarqeen

you hit the nail on the head, that is a good question, Why the rush?? is ESO bleeding players? that was stupid stupid to release the patch like that

ShintaiDK

Another issue with the patch, also relating to respecs, is that you have to specificly remember what morph you had and skilled up when they forcefully reset your skills.
But again, I could write page up and page down with the issues of this patch.

If this patch was rushed because they was bleeding players. I dont want to know how it is now after the patch. I dont even see 5% of my friends list login anymore.

The game is still completely unplayable for a lot of players. Now 3 days or so after the patch hit.

thjudgeman1142ub17_ESO

Dito!!!

Azphira

Indarqeen wrote: »

Why the rush?? is ESO bleeding players?

Since every guild I join is like 10/100 50/500 20/200 online, maybe?

Arreyanne

One thing to remember about 1.1.2 on the PTS they were to only play cragfail

steveb16_ESO46

For this to work it requires testers are actually listened to and what they report investigated, acted upon, tested and signed off before anything is released.

That has not been how Zen have rolled so far.

Wintersage

steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »

For this to work it requires testers are actually listened to and what they report investigated, acted upon, tested and signed off before anything is released.

That has not been how Zen have rolled so far.

This. Can't stress this enough. This is the real true underlying problem. And until it changes, nothing else will, imo.

Winterstrife

Wintersage wrote: »

steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »

For this to work it requires testers are actually listened to and what they report investigated, acted upon, tested and signed off before anything is released.

That has not been how Zen have rolled so far.

This. Can't stress this enough. This is the real true underlying problem. And until it changes, nothing else will, imo.

Yeah, I reported plenty of bugs myself during the beta, but still those bugs got pushed live, really made me think of what they do with all those feedback that was sent to them.

Honestly, things felt like they were getting better over the past weeks before the patch, they were listening & fixing as much bugs/exploits wherever they were reported. I don't know about others, but I certainly had a positive outlook towards the game's future.

Then BAM! comes the patch & the dominoes started falling. Seriously, free month is over, people are paying for your services now, quit screwing around & start putting some real effort in, before you start losing more customers than you can count.

dennissomb16_ESO

Simple for me. PST should always be opened to anyone playing the game like many other games.

navystylz_ESO

I asked Zos_Jessica during the live stream event. She said they would love to open it up in the future to the public, but currently their server technology for test cannot support the numbers of public testing... seems like a simple fix to me.