Is anyone playing on PTS ?!

Vanzen

I mean ... In 3 days I met ONE person ...

No one in Ciro, and queud for BG to no avail.

Am from EU though.

May be there should be some incentive to participate, like a special hat or some clothing to get on live for playing on pts

Mojmir

Reporting/feedback does nothing, what's the point?

SirMewser

Mojmir wrote: »

Reporting/feedback does nothing, what's the point?

Exactly this, I gave up a long time ago.
I spend less and less time every PTS because ZoS doesn't care about the player's interest.

Most of what we do, say, and ask for is undermined if at the very least... Read.
I am convinced that with the quantity of content we get, even in DLCs let alone base game changes, is at the decline. I assure you, the price they value their content, will not reflect this.

Either that or they need to hire people that can actually program.
The graphic design and artwork is fantastic in this game, it's just sad that they refuse to actually develop on what they currently have. We give them how to go about this, many people at this point are informative enough to actually care about what needs to happen.

That is why people get upset, because we want to see this game get better, I am not saying it's getting worse, but it certainly isn't changing for the better.

kojou

Mojmir wrote: »

Reporting/feedback does nothing, what's the point?

Or gets a skill you like nerfed to make a crappy one look better (e.g. petrify).

Lylith

ztyhurstub17_ESO wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

Reporting/feedback does nothing, what's the point?

Or gets a skill you like nerfed to make a crappy one look better (e.g. petrify).

or frags. although the alternative to that one is still ***, imho.

Hamburglarjones

No point anymore

Liofa

I normally spend more time on PTS than I do on live server . I don't anymore . I read forums every day and have a general idea of what people think , what is overperforming and what is lackluster . There are so many discussions and feedback , nothing is being listened or cared about . Taking a small look at today's PTS notes should say more than enough . It is a test server , I go test things . What is the point of my testing if it is gonna go like this ?

Only thing I tested in this PTS is how Asylum 1h/s performs on a mDK for PvP . Answer is good . I managed to find few decent players to duel with and I like the results . Heavy Armor is no good on mDK anymore because losing spell damage means losing healing power too which a mDK cannot afford . My character in live server plays with full Impen items , not a perma block build . Next patch , I am forced to play full Sturdy with Light Armor .

Only 2 Ultimates (trees and resto ulti) in this game that has good potential of making good use of War Machine and Master Architect as tank or healer nerfed hard for PvP reasons . Forced back to use Warhorn and dropping these sets as tanks and healers . So much for build diversity . They could just reduce their healing and/or effectiveness but no . Let's bring down PvE with PvP . I seriously think they are just trolling .

My Warden tank build that excels at healing (20-30% healing done in a trial group) is complete garbage now thanks to removal of Wrath and cost increase on trees . Forced to play the standart Ebon/Alkosh setup with Warhorn all over again . Such fun , using year old items .

Summing up , there is no need to go to PTS . They just do blanket nerfs on everything because they are lazy . No real intention of going to the core of problems . Game gets more nerfs than buffs . Soon , it will become so pathetic , Ashen Grip will be considered as a decent set lol . Not worth bothering .

Kilandros

Mojmir wrote: »

Reporting/feedback does nothing, what's the point?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Mojmir wrote: »

Reporting/feedback does nothing, what's the point?

If they do a closed beta for the next Chapter like they did for Morrowind, spending time on the PTS makes you more likely to get picked.

If not, it still has other uses. When I get bored of testing I'll mess around with furnishings or armor styling - it's an easy way to try out a style which has hard-to-get trait stones without expending them on live, or buy up a lot of expensive furnishings I'm not sure I'll like to test them out. Or I'll redo quests I've forgotten while enjoying the fact that there's little to no rude chatter in zone chat. Or I'll try out a new set to see if I like it before I craft/grind for it.

Trying to do group content on the PTS is terrible though. The only time I've managed to find a group was HoF before it came out.

Taleof2Cities

Vanzen wrote: »

I mean ... In 3 days I met ONE person ...

No one in Ciro, and queud for BG to no avail.

Am from EU though.

May be there should be some incentive to participate, like a special hat or some clothing to get on live for playing on pts

To be fair, there are probably quite a few NA players (like me) that were in on the front end of the PTS window ... when NA character copies were available.

I haven't been in there much since the EU character copy.

But, I did some testing including running the Clockwork main quest ...

Gilliamtherogue

I test almost every day on the PTS servers during a new cycle. I see a few people here and there when I go to main towns to respec morphs or grab stuff, but not as many as I used to. I give my feedback when I have time or fit it into my content creation.

I think a lot of people feel entitled to a response or change when they take the time to write up a post that gets a lot of attention or agrees. Even I in the past used to get upset when I'd take hours writing up an in depth post talking about real issues and not getting a response, but as I started to learn more about the game and the team, I realized that limitations are a big issue. Imagine how many people you would have to hire to go through the verbal drivel that is posted on social media and forums, and how many more would need to be hired to make well thought out responses to anything that got more than 10k views.

People don't really catch on, but a lot of issues that we talk about on the forums are addressed, just not in a timely manner. I see fixes and balance changes for outcries months ago, kind of like an echo effect. They listen, people just don't acknowledge it due to the tardiness.

Biggest fix to the whole situation is to improve on transparency. The Road Ahead needs to come back to a Bi-Weekly (at minimum) appearance, talking about the latest of what is being worked on and the community's input or statistical data (Participation, morph options, consumption of content, etc). People like when developers reach out and share their internal work, but developers get scared because the people too caught up and too bitter lash out with disgusting reactions. It's a two way street.