Console players-Should we have a PTS as well?

NewBlacksmurf · April 2017

Rosveen wrote: »

Out of curiosity, what are these "radically different issues" that the console versions have?

@Rosveen
I can only comment on Xbox vs PC as I have access to both

-Consistent and unavoidable crashing in Trials
-consistent crashing by going to certain DLC cities partially resolved in Orsinium (no longer requires support to move you but often crashes)
-Textures failing to load in all DLC cities
-Infrequently getting kicked from the server weekly for too many messages (not related to text chat or voice chat)
-ESO Plus not granting crowns and/or benefits (ongoing since release)
-Inability to stay in queue for activty finder groups or leave the activity finder
-Inability to enter text in text chat
-inability to enter or leave voice chat (all channels)

Just those that I think have existed and could be considered as blocking progress but not listing other things that are just annoying ongoing issues.

LadyNimue · April 2017

randomkeyhits wrote: »

I'm a PS4 user and I can't think of any game that has a console PTS server, ever,

I do remember on DCUO there being a lot of requests but the answer boiled down to "Sony" and $$$

IIRC correctly Sony don't differentiate between a certified release and PTS, so each PTS is effectively a certified release which costs.

So it wouldn't interfere with the released game a PTS would also have to be a separate application so 2x disk space as well.

DCUO was a radically different situation, being an SOE (later rebranded Daybreak) product. They effectively patched what they wanted, when they wanted, because they didn't have to wait for authentication. They still broke things all the time, but that has more to do with the nature of complex coding, and they didn't have to wait weeks to fix it.