These are back end changes to test how the server handles people remaking games in less than 60 seconds so it doesn’t tip over once Ladder starts.
But honestly, idk if enough people are going to put any sort of actual pressure on the servers. We’re not going to know if this worked until a couple of weeks after ladder starts and everyone is spamming Pindle again.
Thats what i thought this whole thing seeems like a waste there is like 2 games running , anyway i logged in and it worked if that helps . There are no noticeable bug fixes or changes of any kind so i really cannot make any sense of this.
It’s not really “can you log in” it’s “can you spam the absolute $@#@ out of the game making mechanic.” I think ideally we all log in, do 30sec pindleskin runs rinse and repeat to see if we bottleneck the servers. w/o any actually content to test, it’s kind of short sighted though. I’d be pissed off if I run 1-2 hours worth of pindle, get a GG drop and I can’t take it to the live servers. I’d rather just run pindle on live.
if we’re being realistic, they probably won’t get much useable data until after they push this to live and start PTR for the first balance patch. Kind of a shame.
The point of this PTR is to remind you to learn to READ.
Test the enviroment??? This is the same crap we been testing for 4 months there is nothing to test !! I know what a public test realm is i have participated in D2 online mod test realms and ptr on other titles. I was expecting there to be something to test , not the same game same lobby and 3 games running. You cannot test the servers with such little traffic.
Yeah, completely failed reading comprehension.
There was a blue post about this a couple of months back. With that said, this PTR is a bit underwhelming. I really did expect some other server stability stuff like lobby list auto refresh issue, considering they had three months between posting about the database issues and this PTR. Granted, they had to rewrite old code regarding saving procedures and probably a few other areas where it touched, but considering we’re talking about a major balance change patch coming shortly afterwards…
Anyways, that is my thoughts.
Apparently there’s plenty of people knows what is to test a what to do to help with testing if you ever READ the forum a bit.
I guess not only you don’t know how to read you also don’t know how to search, and how to use your brain.
People entitle much nowadays, I see, yet another ignorant crying baby here.
I honestly don’t get why you’re getting so emotional, touchy, and defensive over a PTR.
At this point, I would like to suggest the forum Code of Conduct. Even masked profanity is not allowed.
If you don’t want to test something, great. Read up on it before hand and don’t test. Wait until a test cycle you are interested in. Complaining that they are testing, exactly what they said they were going to test, is a bit odd.
They want you to log in and out…a lot.
So go on, like their Twitter account said, “grab your weapons”…and log in and out a lot!
Nobody is offended. More like confused you did not read the PTR info, made a thread complaining about it, and are very upset about it to the point of swearing and attacking people.
If you don’t care for the forum, maybe don’t participate in it? Just like you don’t have to participate in the PTR?
You asked a question - what was the point of the PTR. You got answers. You just don’t seem to like them.
Dax gave me an answer, everyone else just did the typical neckbeard trolling thing. I want to help with testing but there is zero traffic and nothing to test really , i did my part and logged in and out a few times 
You got an answer from me with the actual links in my first reply.
Your links did not provide much info , i already knew what a PTR is but there is zero info on what exactly we are testing. Once again u cannot test servers without traffic i know this from modding , there simply not enough people on this PTR to get a good idea if they are stable or not . There is not enough games to even try the refresh button that doesnt work
All good i get it now , i logged in it worked testing complete
If you want the whole background on the Database issues you can check the main thread. They discussed putting up this PTR to test some Database Architecture changes quite some time ago. They screwed up big time taking a database from 2000 that was scaled for Regional application and trying to scale it to 2021 Global use across multiple platforms. It still had the old code and some single process bottlenecks. It fell over dead, crashed the servers, lost chars, lost data, etc.
If you mod you might understand why changing the database structure and coding after Live release is an issue. In my opinion I have no idea why they did not do it BEFORE release… but yeah.
I get that now lol. what you do not understand is there is not enough traffic on the PTR to test what they want to test, this is a complete waste. As i said typically there would be bug fixes or new changes to test, if we are testing server load and stability with no one online it simply wont work. There was 3 games and i could not even test the refresh button, my guess is servers will run just fine without being under stress from being filled with players.
I don’t know how they have this test set up right now. I know they are collecting a ton of metrics on the backend. It would be a pretty big disaster if it turns out releasing the PTR patch changes + database changes at once made it all come crashing down.
First steps. Hopefully the changes are stable enough on the first round that they can build on that and deploy the game change PTR on top of it.
Just prove that someone can’t read or not willing to read
Hopefully , blizzard was not ready to release this game clearly. Look at Arpgs like Lost ark they have PTR before the flippin release!!! let u play free until its ready, blizzard could really learn from developers with far smaller budgets.
I love d2 but honestly feel like i have been robbed 60 bucks at this point , i hope the PTR for 2.4 comes soon and i will test the crap out of it. All i want is a freaking working ladder i paid for it with my hard earned dollars.