Word just went out. Be ready for a dozen posts about how everyone knows some change ruined the game & people denying it need to stop deluding themselves.
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how does one participate in it?
Twitter always gets the news first it seems. Who cares about the official forums… 
Lets gooooooooooooo!!!11!1
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It’s not the 2.4 changes just yet, only testing the PTR/database.
Still, quite exciting!
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LOL the server/database PTR? Isnt that what we have been doing since September?
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We’ve been giving them feedback since September to develop the upcoming server/database changes/PTR, yes.
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Well it would be nice to hear exactly what they will be “trying”, if its game lobby and list updates to make them functional and user friendly, jackpot, otherwise, Ill wait.
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I’m assuming that you’ll have the option to select PTR in the Battle.net launcher, the pulldown selection right above the “Play” button. Just a guess. We’ll get more details very soon I’m guessing.
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While you are at it, would you mind updating the areat summit website? There was nothing there announcing D2R, but at least we could get an updated version with the new graphics and the new runewords and modified skills.
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You install the PTR in your launcher (above the big blue play button).
Well in the old days, they just rolled stuff out & we found out if it worked when we played it & that’s the way we liked it.
So, they want us to try to crash the database server on the public test realm? Wonder if there will be game creation cooldowns…
Thats what the new database is aiming to fix AFAIK.
Now waiting for the patch notes to drop. Hopefully the forum wins over Twitter this time.
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I actually got the news from a youtube notification lol.
so is the acually time of event some forbiden knowledge?
Why not test the server and the new content at the same time?
What’s the incentive to play on PTR if nothing is different than the live version we have now?
If you want to test the server load, you bait the players with something. shrug
It’s taking way too long to get ladder out.
For the database stuff you would want to refer to the previous posts on it.
The old database structure was built for regional application in 2000. They tried to use it for a global scope in 2021 across all platforms. Some portions of the architecture had single process bottlenecks.
It could not handle the volume of data thrown at it. Resulting in crashes, being down all day, lost progress, lost characters, etc.
They had to put in some temporary measures to keep it stable, like a login queue and game creation timers.
They said they would be working on the architecture programming to improve things - but you don’t want to touch a Live database like that. It could really mess things up. The changed database programming is to be tested on the PTR first. If it works, it may get us to the point where those temp restrictions can be removed. Would be rather nice to have before ladder.
That means people can, and should, try to break the database testing PTR!
Changing the database structure that runs the game is a rather big deal. You don’t want to be trying to test too many things at once. They need to make sure the database is reasonable stable before doing the content testing. I would guess the content testing will build on the initial database PTR testing.
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There could be problems caused by the 2.4 changes, which could then be confused with issues with the new server database changes. They’re taking the scientific method approach.
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