Recently, over three weekends (26-27th February, 4-5th March, 11-12th March), Bioware organised time around. 4x46r
BioWare announced the times for the play sessions on the forums and also played along with players incognito, but they never did anyting else to the PTS or to try to get more players to so they could test these new areas.
Xam Xam is one of these players and she explains what she sees as a missed opportunity for BioWare on her blog:
The three weekends of playtesting sessions were inadequate to test the new Warzone. There were too few players on the PTS. There are two main reasons there weren’t that many players on the PTS:
- The PTS is a massive – you have to re- the whole game. This is time consuming and you can not continue playing on live servers while the is happening.
- There are no incentives/rewards for taking the time to help Bioware test their content.
See, once upon a time, Bioware invited us all onto the PTS to test Bioware got their content tested by a large number of players and everyone lived happily ever after.
But no. This time around, when we really needed more players for testing, there were no incentives and barely any official advertising which unfortunately meant, very few players. Offering incentives, in the past, has seemingly made it worthwhile for most players to take the time to the PTS.
Those are all very good points. I mean, Xam Xam loves future of the game and making sure things are running as they should be.
She doesn’t just complain with nothing to play test sessions and they could have offered some incentives to the players who were willing to spend their time and come out and do it.
