Why are there no test servers for Diablo? Then you could test these ‘game breaking’ buffs rather than implementing hotfix nerfs. Surely there’s room for it in the budgets, even after the yacht upgrades for the suits.
Why test when your community will pay $90 to do it for you?
True that!
But I think it would be nice to see what upcoming plans the team has and what they’re trying to do, instead of these ‘campfire’ things.
What makes you think they don’t have test servers?
Believe me I’m no shill, but like, I’m sure they have test servers. They have to run everything in-house, get it past QA and upper management, and all the signatures, before it is finally pushed to the public.
I run game servers (though to a significantly less degree). We have test servers too. But, only a limited amount of people can access them and we do our best to ensure a quality release. When the production reaches the end users in mass, sometimes things break that you couldn’t anticipate and users find issues that simply couldn’t be seen with a limited test group.
TL;DR they have test servers.
Oh I dunno, scan the threads on the forums and you’ll realize just how much play testing was done. Seems like most of it should’ve been done in alpha.
An alpha test is really to present a product and make sure the code is stable. This game is beyond that.
I’m not saying it’s not without its flaws, but you really don’t have any backing proof to suggest they don’t have test servers. Like, how do you think they test the patches before releasing them? Lol.
Yes, and they also have test servers for plenty of their IP’s, WoW has test servers and so does Overwatch as well as Starcraft. Are those any more worthy of a public test server than Diablo is? If anything, this game needs it more than the others since it’s a fresh release.