Blizzard, you would get much better testing if you rewarded players for their testing.
First, when PTR goes live there shouldn’t be able stability issues.
But as people test parts of the game they could be earning transmogs, mounts, pets, wow tokens, etc.
If you want players to do things you need to reward or pay them for doing it.
Also, you need more professional Q&A testers for your product.
Wouldn’t matter who they had testing or answering questions, if they don’t listen to The feedback that’s given to them.
It’s not called a PTR when you have 100% bug free
You want to be paid?
Ok here you go
https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/job/R007343/Senior-Test-Lead-WoW
https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/job/R010222/Associate-Test-Analyst-World-of-Warcraft
Now apply for their position and you can get paid and test the PTR!
Didn’t say bugs. I said stability issues. Sort those out so players can do testing without connection issues or the game crashing.
I definitely don’t want specific in game rewards for testing, but a WoW token would be nice for a certain amount of time spent on PTR. There may need to be some threshold of bugs submitted as well.
True true. I could see problems with having in-game rewards like mogs mounts etc like players afk’ing in the test realm just to put in the hours. But the net benefit might be worth it.
But it’s just a split balled idea not really thought out but incentives should be there if testing is lacking.
The PTR isn’t for testing, why would you be rewarded for it? PTR is only so you can get early access to new content.
I know Everquest rewards (toy or mog) players that have helped test their latest expansion. I think it is a good idea.
No they wouldn’t. They’d simply get people who get onto PTR just to get a prize.
Hiring me as qa would be good incentive
Your wish is granted.
However, all that you earn is locked to your PTR character alone.
Blizzard isn’t looking for actual feedback or bug reports in the PTR. They just want data. Real bug reports require details and steps to replicate, which players who are testing for free will not submit properly. There’s no way for them to sort through hundreds or thousands of generic, poorly-written bug reports from PTR testers.
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its called the public TEST realm. Thats what PTR stands for. It is very much meant for public testing.
They can call it whatever they want, but the reality is that they utilize none of the feedback from a PTR whatsoever. It’s used to hype up content and give creators early access so they can build their guides or prep for bosses or whatever. Things don’t get changed from PTR-- even most of the bugs are pushed live. It used to be for testing, now it’s not.