Are we being paid in any way to be forced to beta test?

Just curious. Is the entire public without there knowledge your beta testers? It seems that little to no content was added this patch and entire systems being reworked and currently most are not working properly. It really seems like some one dropped the ball when they went to there boss and said that Shadowlands was ready to go to PTR and even more so when they said it was ready for the public. Its like Ford selling half a car and saying we will add updates that will make it able to drive soon. Kinda funny really. So I guess my next question is since we all work for you now… What do we get. Most of us will want paid.

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You agreed to the ToS on purchase.

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This is pre-patch, not xpac, and they told us up front that no new content would be released today.

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If it ain’t worth your time or subscription money then don’t play.

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Best part of this is those of us who have been beta testing and alpha testing reported most of these bugs MONTHS ago.

Some are even fixed in the beta but are now live in game. Nice release of an earlier beta build blizzard to make it look like your now listening.

Prime example exotic pets are fixed on the beta right now but in live game they are keeping their raid abilities, so you can have a BM hunter pet that spams fear, or spams nerfbat, or just one shots the entire raid. But in beta this was fixed two builds ago… Why is it live?

Oh, the old Apple developer trick of fixing bugs then releasing the bugged build to say “look how fast we listen and how fast we can fix it” when it was already fixed in beta.

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No ones forcing you to do anything. You dont have to play. The rest of the community knew this was pre-patch with no content, how did you drop the ball on being the only one who didnt know?

And I hate being “that guy”… but ffs man its “their” not “there”…

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By having a better game in the end.

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You aren’t forced to do anything.

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and yet… it was.

Exiles Reach didn’t exist yesterday.

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Lol, i’ve been creating allied race toons so totally skipping it. Point taken.

Blizzard doesn’t even listen to the free feedback they get in their testing. Now they make us pay to beta test for them.

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their knowledge.

hopefully most of the beta testers are able to distinguish the difference between there/their/they’re …or it’s going to be a long couple of years trying to get typos corrected.

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Can I see your time card? How many hours did you work today? What’s your manager’s name? Do you have any direct reports? Output, how much work did you accomplish?

Oh, wait, you don’t have to be here. You can go home and not come back if that’s your flavor.

prophecy revealed. lol.
We all knew prepatch wasnt ready. They should have left it at SL end of year, then made end of November prepatch.

Typos are easy fixes. I would rather beta testers work to figure out gameplay and system bugs instead of worrying about text.

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Ya both get likes from me. I’m still amazed how many people get this wrong…

Should rename yourself to ''YESBULLY"" cause that what you’re on this forum.

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So of you some real diehard blizz fanbois… would go to war for a mediocre company. Did I say it was not worth. Game very worth playing. But why test a game for free. Thats what PTR is for. WOW is a full game release as of 2004. No one should be forced to test features in there game. They put feature out, we provide feedback, if we like it they decide to keep it. thats how it should be on they main servers. Not pushing something Completely broken and wanting us to figure out how to fix it for them. Blind sheep cant think for themselves and live by the word of the holy text of TOS.

Given how the pre-patch went, I doubt that would have been enough to fix it.

if people want to dish it out, they need to learn how to take it :slight_smile:

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