Does Blizzard PTR-test patches before they launch?

Genuine question:

Does Blizzard have a hidden closed community that helps them to test patches before they launch live?

98% of the official Discord general chat is full of furious gamers, the Diablo 4 Reddit forum is on fire, and this forum is on fire, almost every content creator is publically upset.

I’ve never seen this unity in a gaming community about a patch being horrible. So how did it go past the testing phase?

Furthermore, every patch released so far has had these super obvious bugs. Like Helltide not dropping any cinders, or completely bricking a certain spec.

If they do in fact have a closed testing community, did they not warn Blizzard about this patch? Does anyone have insight?

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No PTR in D4 unlike D3 , that’s my 2-cents.
PTR in D4 = 1st week of Seasons, normal aka non-casual gamers are the bugs explorer.

Do they have a dedicated team for PTR? Of course they do. The team however only have 2 hours a week just to test things out. With GM commands. High end affix on every gear slot. They are there to test out potentials, not so see how much player suffer. Don’t forget these are paid testers. They can just sit in front of the computer for 2 hours without playing the game at all then write a report saying the game is unbalance, needs nerfs.

I haven’t seen people this much on the same page since the REALID disaster.

No you are the PTR. Enjoy!

How do you know this? I’m not critiquing your answer, just curious.

No, they use production servers as testing environment. You’ve paid to be a beta tester for them, enjoy.

Because that’s were all the concerns lies. The potential of big numbers comes from high end gear. Not blues.

Can.t PLAY THE PTR, PC PLAYER MONSTER PC, just a joke. And what is the point of farming this current season 5 if all items are useless once more!?