Sure sure. Where’s our contract for helping QA the game?
Oh they want us to do it for free? No.
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If Blizzard gave us BNET Balance for doing the work they should be doing, I might do it.
They are saving all this money by not having paid staff- at least the BNET balance would go back into their pockets.
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That is because their devs actually play the game and test it thoroughly.
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The problem isn’t little obscure bugs that escape to live. Every game has it, players understand. Its when theres huge unavoidable bugs and issues everyone reports and never gets properly fixed or addressed that burns players out on ptr testing. Why bother when weve had a long history of feedback going nowhere? At least on the forums you can complain to someone and not feel like you’re yelling at a brick wall. Just once id like that brick wall to tell me im trash at the game and to play classic if i don’t like it. Or something like that.
Sorry that took a hard left turn, still waking up
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What makes you think that the QA testers they hire can’t also be WoW players?
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There are plenty of players who actually like to play on the PTR. For myself, I do enough software test in my day gig that I’m damned if I’m going to spend my leisure time testing anyone else’s.
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If their deves are playing the game, who is developing the content?
I am seriously wondering if I should send in a W2 after that BS comment, I have worked in the “Interactive Entertainment Field,” and I know my worth. 
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This will shock you but they have the ability to play the content that they develop and make.
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Sure they do but if you have employees who are working 40 hours a week, how many hours do you want them playing video games? And remember, what ever number you pick, that comes out of content development.
Do you think only people without jobs play video games or something?
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Lots of people with jobs play video games on their own time. But if the boss tells you that you must play a video game then it is not your time. It is part of your job.
If, like most people, you work a 40 hour week, then that means something else, like content, is not getting done.
Unless you want to offer them overtime in which case, who is going to pay for it?
Literally not a single person has said that.
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It will also probably shock you to hear that 7 million players will undoubtedly find more bugs than however many are on the dev team and the ‘what if’ QA team combined.
How many times have we seen issues that were brought up early on the PTR make it all the way live
Blizzard does not care and their “we hear you” is pure gaslighting.
Customer service is dead to where people are lying about billing issues to get to an actual human.
Blizz does not care about the players as long as the monthly check keeps coming in above their expenses. The game will never be GOOD until that changes but the incentive is not there.
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I like what someone else suggested.
Pay me and maybe I’ll play the PTR.
Otherwise, thanks, but no thanks.
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There’s some bugs i’ve been reporting as far back as BFA that i report every PTR but never get fixed lol i’m not sure what more they expect players to do
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There are bugs going back to MoP, and if I tried hard prolly as early as vanilla that are still in game
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They said the devs should play the game. So the devs are people who go to work every day, probably 40 hours a week, and each has a boss that tells them what they should be working on.
The only way developers would be playing the game on company time would be if they were assigned the job of playing the game. So anyone who says “the devs should play the game” is saying that playing the game should be part of the 40 hour week for which they are paid.
What that means is that how ever much time they are playing the game, that will be how much time is taken from content creation.
They could pay me to play the PTR. They could find ways to induce people to play the PTR (blizzard store bucks, mounts, xmog).
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