[SUGGESTION] Who's not marketing NECROM on PTS as good as it could be?

eternalshockcable

why is NECROM not up on PTS?


The expansion launched. I get it that NECRO was on PTS before the launch but NECRO needs to be available to be TESTED on the PTS.
You're missing sales by not having it up.


Please for the love of marketing this product put the expansion back up on PTS as soon as possible.

Aislinna

My understanding is that during the last week of PTS testing, it becomes only available to customers that purchased the chapter.

Soarora

It is up. I didn't preorder but was able to access it because I didn't wait until the last week to join PTS.

Dreaders123

eternalshockcable wrote: »

why is NECROM not up on PTS?


The expansion launched. I get it that NECRO was on PTS before the launch but NECRO needs to be available to be TESTED on the PTS.
You're missing sales by not having it up.


Please for the love of marketing this product put the expansion back up on PTS as soon as possible.

I disagree. The chance to test it was there, and people online on live without it cannot miss all the Arcanists running around with the peak setups. The PTS isn't really like a freemium in that sense for marketing purposes.

From an objective perspective, without obviously knowing the revenue results, the marketing has been pretty strong. Good coverage, even mainline news sites thanks to the XBOX Gaming show, good presence in game, good community engagement levels. Pending revenue results vs targets, a strong showing indicated. If the revenue doesn't match expectations, it doesn't feel (from an outsiders perspective) that marketing would be on the target focus causes list.

Avrael

I personally have to agree. I was shocked to find that THE main reason the PTS should be up in the first place is... not there. What exactly are we supposed to test there? How the game was pre-Necrom? Really? Thats whats interesting right now? This never happened before, at least until before i stopped playing. The PTS ALWAYS had the newest Expansion cause... that made sense!?

I stopped playing before high isle and now thought about joining again, and i cant even test the new class or anything without paying a full game price for it, without any chance of return because its not a game but just a DLC? And please, stop with the "Expansions arent just DLCs", i just saw in the crown store that all old expansions LITERALLY ARE JUST DLCS NOW. Which of course they lied about back then too, "Expansions will never just be DLCs!" (Real quote).

So i actually think i will not return now, main reason being exactly this. Most other expansions, since the first one, i tested on the PTS before i bought, because thats kinda what it was for. What, you think its for fixing bugs, or balancing? Ye, because that happens lmao.

Srsly tho, im not interested anymore. Not only are there STILL no class change tokens, i still cant enjoy a new class on my 10 year old character i did everything so far with and is the only that has any history, nostalgia etc. They now even said Class change tokens will probably never come, which made a certain part on me go very soft. But THIS is even more ridiculous.

tsaescishoeshiner

As much sense as a "trial mode" for Necrom makes, I don't think most prospective players will download PTS for that reason.

I imagine ZOS just trusts their other promotion channels to attract Necrom sales. An in-game "Arcanist trial mode" would be cool.

I'm not sure why the PTS is kept up once the content goes live, but I know some endgame players test out new builds there with the infinite resources.

Dr_Con

based on other forum posts, there's reason to believe it's related to a mistake they made when Western Skyrim was released.