Extend Classic Wow stress test to 1 week

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It’s too short of a 48 hours, I’ve been having so much fun interacting with everyone and I don’t want it to end not for at least a week since, the base beta got an extension. This stress test is so fun it’s been years since I’ve actually interacted with people and actually recognizing people’s names when i see them. Please I beg you Blizzard extend the stress test for at least 1 week and increase the lvl cap to 25, if you do this, it will give us a chance to report the bugs we encounter. And most of all having fun with everyone around us. I love crafting blacksmithing gear for people for free just to see them light up. I beg you please don’t close the stress test just yet. Thank you for reading this important message. :slight_smile: <3 <3 <3 and have a wonderful day!

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Sadly bugs are for the beta peeps - and the test is for them to test. We are but guinea pigs :rat:

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Pretty cruel to end our joy right before the weekend, too :wink:

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I totally agree

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I’ve found a couple of bugs so far but not sure how to report them aside from ingame bug report since here’s no immediate option and I can’t post in the beta forums.

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True… but they need to free up the Beta servers for the important people to give them added free advertising. We’re just the common sheep.

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imo weekends would be better for stress testing more folks off work etc.

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This would be amazing

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I don’t have very much faith in the beta to be honest so I support opening up the stress test for a little longer so that some of us can actually bug report. The amount of bugs we’re finding that haven’t been found yet but which are quite obvious is really disheartening. Two months to launch and some really, really, really, broken things are only just coming to light and some of them, identified in stress test one and the beta, still haven’t been fixed.

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Blizzard employees need days off too, additional time working during the week will lead to worse productivity, not better.

The point of the Stress test was to “stress” the servers and they were able to successfully do this by simply concentrating a larger number of people into a few servers over a short period of time.

I hope folks can simply be happy that they opened it up for a small period of time to all their subscribers this time around as an added bonus for supporting Blizzard.

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Fair, but but by that definition Beta servers shouldnt be up during the week either.

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Folks in EU and other parts of the world had perfect time to play during the stress test. :slight_smile:

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If they need volunteer devs/mods/etc to hold the fort down for weekends I’m sure they’d get 1 or two (thousand) volunteers.

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Sure, but then you have them running at 10% [arbitrary number] efficiency in responding to changes needed for the stress test. And really, I don’t imagine they had any lack of stress testers in this last run with increasing their potential testers by including subscribers. :smile_cat:

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I just wish they would stop scheduling the stress tests during weeks where I have a lot going on after I get off work so I could actually play. I’ve probably logged maybe 2 hours of time in the stress tests total just because I have had too much going on during them :frowning:

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FYI, They’ve already posted their testing schedule as of May 14th, so plan accordingly:

STRESS TEST SCHEDULE*

  • Stress Test 1: Wed May 22–Thurs May 23
  • Stress Test 2: Wed Jun 19– Thurs Jun 20
  • Stress Test 3: Thurs Jul 18– Fri July 19

*Dates of each stress test are subject to change.

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Yeah…I know that the schedule exists…it’s more like Life seems to kick me in the @ss every time a stress test comes up.

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No worries, some folks act like they’re surprised at stress test announcements more often than not.

All-in-all, it isn’t worth stressing (hah, get it?) about these temporary test servers for too long and to focus on our main priority of kicking life back in the @$$

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Yup…that’s usually the priority…but I would like to actually invest some time to see for myself how everything is working. But worst case scenario, I’ll find out in August so it’s not a huge deal either way.

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Well the next stress test is in july hopefully its near the weekend and not in the middle because so many people are working on those days. Hopefully we can have a longer time spent on there.