Good Idea !

Agreed. In lieu of some glaring issues in the Update, I think there needs to be more people on the PTS that will actually critique and test the content before it goes live, rather than just play and get excited because they get to experience new content before everyone else does.

I do not agree that posters on the forum know more than developers but I do agree that opening the PTS to a wider segment of the community can help.

A wider segment can help by with a varied range of perspectives. Places that will be exploited would more likely be noticed and communicated instead of quietly noted and utilized live. Things like the VR grind boredom may not have shown up or even been a problem on the PTS, but they do matter. PTS is great for test runs to gain world firsts when released but also for gaining insight to anticipate problems and to get input as to how it will be received by the overall ESO audience.

There was a high level of excitement before ESO release, but since it has been blase with reviews and with the community. Putting out fires is normal but adding more resources to anticipating problems through communication with a wider base utilizing the PTS would be a helpful step. The game is great and has potential to live up to the pre-release excitement. Surveys, communication and responsiveness is great.

Hozec wrote: »

They already said they are going to. so why make a post asking them to?

Because it should have been done at release, and Craglorn's bugs and exploits are the reason why.

In order for a public test environment to work you need a lot of people in it doing stuff to build up analytic data. They clearly don't have that happening and that why we get so many regression and design issues every patch.

Yeah, I also strongly suspect that a lot of bugs are kept secret due to the current nature of the PTS, so the players can exploit them when live. It seems like they play just to experience content first and discover useful exploits.