Alpha & Beta invites

Community General Discussion
1

Let´s start by saying that I don´t care if I am invited or not, but I have been in many of these tests throughout the years and there is something pretty odd about how people test these days.

We are having an Alpha Forum for War Within and the first people are having access, but if you look at the Forum, it´s completely empty as if nobody was actually testing it.

Seriously, if you have the chance to chat with the developers, then why not take it? We used to always do that back in the days, we made things happen we changed content after testing it, but now?

It seems as those having access, don´t care at all about the quality and I guess it is because the invites went to streamers only and we all know about their “lack” of quality, if it comes to testing.

It´s more about boosting subs and followers and a while later they drop the game without any feedback.

This in my opinion leads to the current misconception of WOW as a game for all kinds of players, which it clearly is no longer.

War Within looked so good when they announced it, but if not the average joe is able to give feedback, then it may be ruined just like DF that in theory had so much good with professions for example, but the lack of testing and feedback pushed it in the bad state it is now.

Browsing YT I found a single content creator actually explaining and analysing warbands while also making suggestions, everyone else is just making videos about the top builds and how to level fastest or they run the quests, talk nonstop about Mythic raiding and dungeons while rambling about how perfect WOW is and what not.

I was glad at least a single dude talked about Delves.

Therefore I want to encourage those having access, to please test all content and stop focusing on what class is the most powerful and how to level fastest. Test the professions, warbands and other parts of the game that are interesting for the majority of the players.

It simply put does not matter if a Warlock may do 1% less damage than a Mage or what not.

Thanks to the 2-3 people that actually posted in the official forum so far, interesting read it was indeed.

2 Likes
2

There’s a lot of channels for raising issues, including a bug report feature right in game. I see plenty of streamers use that.

1 Like
3

Agreed.

However, I have the odd take that feedback is not really that valuable in game development. Bug reports, sure, but other feedback (my own included) is almost always myopic and self-serving.

1 Like
4

I am glad they do that, this may give hope that bugs are eliminated!

:+1:

5

I don’t want an invite. Literally get burnt out before it’s even out

1 Like
6

See that’s the thing, bug are never eliminated. They just use testing to iron out bigger system issues.

I mean, look at every patch the game has ever put out. We can always expect 1-3 days of issues until they fix most (not all) of the bugs.

1 Like
7

gee, it’s almost as if they only set it up a few days ago or something weird.

8

It’s 95% for hype-building, 5% for “feedback”. Their systems are already locked in place anyway, no amount of “feedback” will get them to drop Hero Talents or Delves, for example. Tweaks, sure, but no “well the players hate this, so we’re scrapping it”.

9

I would guess that the larger streamers/RWF players probably utilize more private channels of communication with the developers. I have seen a fair amount of videos detailing class changes and how they feel to play, but yeah there definitely are a lot of clickbait videos that seem rather pointless for Alpha

10

Majority of players love hero talents? It’s the ones that don’t play the game that are disliking it?

It’s been overwhelmingly positive feedback on the alpha.

They’re even reworking classes and releasing them slowly to get people to test them

11

Most people in the first wave of alpha have alternate channels for conveying feedback.

Bug reporting is available in game.

12

because they can provide feedback and bugs in game.

13

I think its just another example of how the quality and popularity of wow has severely declined.

14

it is sure a lot quieter on that forum than it usually is

15

To think hero talents can’t be changed or iterated is spreading false news. Also, hero talents are not like I don’t know Azerite gear or neck or shadowlands soulbinds system.

16

Players can and do use the in-game bug/feedback reports, sure, but it still feels odd just how empty the alpha forum is. Last time I peeked over there to see what’s going on with alpha, the only posts I saw were made by blues excluding maybe two single posts made by non-blues. Looking at the buzz from the rest of the forum at any given time, it does feel strange.

17

You are really assuming a lot here since right now, people who are testing probably cant even level a toon to max level to do the whole max/min testing thing. Right now everything is really in very early stages and as you can see is very targeted testing. This is why its not in open beta and they are just opening the flood gates to everyone and anyone. So get off your soap box.

18

People are reading way too hard into the first wave of alpha invites.

19

Technically the 2nd wave, more went out yesterday I believe.
But yeah. They are.

20

I realize that and not factoring those in. Since they don’t have an impact on the complaint.

Since the post is also a day+ old, I doubt they were complaining about the 15 mins the second wave was available.