While the servers are down, visit the pts and help with testing

Teridaxus

What the title says

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

Id rather not spoil everything. I dont want to get tired of it before it even comes out. plus to be frank its too late for any real drastic changes anyways. They are 30 days from pushing this live basically. So I dont really see the point of jumping on there.

Teridaxus

The dark brotherhood is isolated like thieves guilds.
You can still test classes, skillines, poision, enchanting and many other things.

rotaugen454

If the servers are still down for maintenence when I get home, this is exactly what I will do.

Callous2208

I thought I was supposed to ignore the pts and then come here to complain about things that made it to live once DB drops.

rotaugen454

Callous2208 wrote: »

I thought I was supposed to ignore the pts and then come here to complain about things that made it to live once DB drops.

Exactly! I would rather curse the darkness than light a candle! Then again, I tend to rush in where angels fear to tread.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

Callous2208 wrote: »

I thought I was supposed to ignore the pts and then come here to complain about things that made it to live once DB drops.

From what I hear bugs from PTS almost always make it to live. Some from TG are still here and they want me to test more stuff? I remember when companies tested their own stuff.

demonaffinity

I would but I still don't trust Zenimax when it comes to taking feedback serious. Which is hard for me to say at this point. It seems obvious based on Dark Brotherhood's current state, that Zenimax has indeed done a lot, based on player feedback. But their lack of communication, and neglect to take the playerbase serious in the past, overshadows what we ASSUME is going to be a step forward.

If Dark Brotherhood goes well, and they listen to the feedback, I will definately take the next PTS more serious. But for now, I just don't see the point for me personaly. I wouldn't feel like Zenimax actually cared about what I would be testing anyways.

Not trying to bash Zenimax here, but that's what lack of communication does to some, if not most players.

captainwolfos

After two days of trying to get the PTS download further than 19%, and hoping for it to stop going down, I cancelled it.

No PTS for me.

Reevster

I am at 12 percent after 24 hours.... maybe 2 or 3 more days of DLing...

ku5h

Whats the point? They will go ahead and ignore all players feedback and do things their own way. Just like did every PTS before.

Dromede

demonaffinity wrote: »

I would but I still don't trust Zenimax when it comes to taking feedback serious. Which is hard for me to say at this point. It seems obvious based on Dark Brotherhood's current state, that Zenimax has indeed done a lot, based on player feedback. But their lack of communication, and neglect to take the playerbase serious in the past, overshadows what we ASSUME is going to be a step forward.

If Dark Brotherhood goes well, and they listen to the feedback, I will definately take the next PTS more serious. But for now, I just don't see the point for me personaly. I wouldn't feel like Zenimax actually cared about what I would be testing anyways.

Not trying to bash Zenimax here, but that's what lack of communication does to some, if not most players.

We actually got ZOS to make an Enchanting change with the upcoming new PTS patch fix - they were trying to make Potency runes only sellable/tradeable with no harvesting option. Anyone interested can see the official Enchanting Feedback thread, page 9 or 10 has Gina's answer that they are reconsidering things to be closer to what players want.

Testing and providing feedback matters

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

Dromede wrote: »

demonaffinity wrote: »

I would but I still don't trust Zenimax when it comes to taking feedback serious. Which is hard for me to say at this point. It seems obvious based on Dark Brotherhood's current state, that Zenimax has indeed done a lot, based on player feedback. But their lack of communication, and neglect to take the playerbase serious in the past, overshadows what we ASSUME is going to be a step forward.

If Dark Brotherhood goes well, and they listen to the feedback, I will definately take the next PTS more serious. But for now, I just don't see the point for me personaly. I wouldn't feel like Zenimax actually cared about what I would be testing anyways.

Not trying to bash Zenimax here, but that's what lack of communication does to some, if not most players.

We actually got ZOS to make an Enchanting change with the upcoming new PTS patch fix - they were trying to make Potency runes only sellable/tradeable with no harvesting option. Anyone interested can see the official Enchanting Feedback thread, page 9 or 10 has Gina's answer that they are reconsidering things to be closer to what players want.

Testing and providing feedback matters

So she didnt say for sure it would be changed tho right? Did anyone ask why the heck they changed how enchanting nodes work in the first place? Also most of that feedback wasnt from people on PTS. It was from people who read the patch notes.

Tryxus

By the time I installed the PTS, Maint will be over

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO

rotaugen454 wrote: »

Exactly! I would rather curse the darkness than light a candle! Then again, I tend to rush in where angels fear to tread.

I like this guy! ^^^^

KanedaSyndrome

Ok let me go and do

mzapkeneb18_ESO wrote: »

What the title says

Ok let me go and do that right away. Just because you asked me.

ArvenAldmeri

This would be nice idea if my ping on PTS would not be so bad and the sound compltely screwed up. In addition to that I really dont enjoy playing template character. So as said. Cant test anything in pvp, if I start fight ping goes up and after few seconds of nothing happening I lay dead on the ground without knowhing what actually happened. As for pve, I already had the pleasure to see those extremely underpowered world "bosses" and dungeons "bosses" and the dungeon mobs and the whole new zone. To meet a mob you really have to look for it there. Its horrible how its oriented on solo newbie players.

Morbash

Let me get right on that with all that bandwidth I don't have.

Danksta

Console noob here, is the PTS always up?

InvitationNotFound

demonaffinity wrote: »

I would but I still don't trust Zenimax when it comes to taking feedback serious. Which is hard for me to say at this point. It seems obvious based on Dark Brotherhood's current state, that Zenimax has indeed done a lot, based on player feedback. But their lack of communication, and neglect to take the playerbase serious in the past, overshadows what we ASSUME is going to be a step forward.

If Dark Brotherhood goes well, and they listen to the feedback, I will definately take the next PTS more serious. But for now, I just don't see the point for me personaly. I wouldn't feel like Zenimax actually cared about what I would be testing anyways.

Not trying to bash Zenimax here, but that's what lack of communication does to some, if not most players.

well...
I've already tested quite a lot in the past on pts (before the last published dlc). and i've reported many bugs and feedback, as others did as well. still, all the bugs found their way to the live servers.

this isn't simply a lack of communications.

After all, you payed and are paying (to a certain degree) for the game. yet, you still test their product and get patches delivered with game breaking bugs all the time while it generally should be considered normal to deliver a working / functional product to your customers. and yet, we find people saying "thumbs up, they did a lot" while their whole process (from management to QA) seems like a big mess.

WitchyWarrior

I have been trying to log in to the PTS since yesterday morning. It won't let me. keeps popping up with a crash report after char. selection. It was fine the 1st day Brotherhood dropped, I played on there for a few hours.
ZoS hasn't answered me about it so I am giving up on PTS for now

Recremen

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Id rather not spoil everything. I dont want to get tired of it before it even comes out. plus to be frank its too late for any real drastic changes anyways. They are 30 days from pushing this live basically. So I dont really see the point of jumping on there.

If by "spoil everything" you mean "spoil the content in the new zones", you don't need to worry, you can just not go to the new zones. There's still tons of stuff to test if you want to come help out! Everything from combat changes, to issues with Crown Store items, to new group functions. If you have the hard drive space and the will to test, please do so!