Do we really need a pte?

[warbux64]

Just curious. With so few people playing the game, isn't the whole thing just a test environment at this point? Why divide what little player base there is?

[BENN-EE5]

I personally think the PTE is a terrible idea for this game. This is a Early Access game that will be in development for at least a full year until it is out of early access. If I look at the current state of the game I think a "full release" in mid 2020 is more realistic.

The player base is terribly low and you just split it further with running a separate PTE. A lot of people are not motivated to play a even "worse" version of the game. So you will lack people on the PTE and still lack actual players on the "so called" stable build.

I dont think the game or the players will really gain anything from it.

[JASON BOURNE]

Originally posted by MeFirst:

I personally think the PTE is a terrible idea for this game. This is a Early Access game that will be in development for at least a full year until it is out of early access. If I look at the current state of the game I think a "full release" in mid 2020 is more realistic.

The player base is terribly low and you just split it further with running a separate PTE. A lot of people are not motivated to play a even "worse" version of the game. So you will lack people on the PTE and still lack actual players on the "so called" stable build.

I dont think the game or the players will really gain anything from it.

So yall complaining about how buggy the game is right now but say that pte makes no sense? Holycrap get your stuff together son!

[Borreh]

We'd have 0 players by now if all the bugs that get caught on PTE would land in Live releases.

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I partially agree, but i mean for example, if there is no PTE server, and update on live servers lands in fkd up condition then all people here who do not expect any problems at this stage will butthearting even more!

[Thaumaturge]

So this is who this works, A lot of us really love the game, we are willing to play, but at the moment, we are waiting for the next patch. We played this patch, we gave our feedback, they're working on it. This isn't a game like ARK that people just keep playing in early access. I get that you want to play, and no one is really on, i'm sorry, but you just gotta wait till the next patch drop

[warbux64]

Originally posted by Borreh:

We'd have 0 players by now if all the bugs that get caught on PTE would land in Live releases.

I disagree. I think that the people who are still really trying to play your game fully understand that the game is a work in progress. To say that you have to test a patch on what? 50-100 players. Then release it to the other 200 or so just doesn't make sense.

[zombie326]

Originally posted by warbux64:

Originally posted by Borreh:

We'd have 0 players by now if all the bugs that get caught on PTE would land in Live releases.

I disagree. I think that the people who are still really trying to play your game fully understand that the game is a work in progress. To say that you have to test a patch on what? 50-100 players. Then release it to the other 200 or so just doesn't make sense.

It doesn't really matter how many people play tbf

Also people are already complaining about bugs in the normal version lol, no point in making it any worse

[Snipe]

NO NO NO PTE STAY

[v0ffka]

Originally posted by Jesus Christ:

So yall complaining about how buggy the game is right now but say that pte makes no sense? Holycrap get your stuff together son!

They have a point though - having test environment for the test environment has little to no sense. As many people were pointing out already, what is being sold is literally the ability to test the game for the developers. So now they want us to test the version before we test it?! LOL
I think, I know, why this is needed though, as I have seen things like this before, not in game dev though – there is obviously a problem with internal QA process, if such thing is present at all, to more or less reasonable extent, which can result in the version of the game, rolled out to the servers preventing people to play at all an therefore lose interest and move to other games, maybe for a short period of time, maybe for a long one and this will drop the player base, which is already very low (not bashing the game, just looking at steamcharts data), so devs are making sure, that people will have at least some playable version of the game online, while they fix another, if needed. I consider this practice a bad one, in terms of software dev, but it is what it is and players, who pre-order and buy EA games are partially to blame for this, but on the other hand, you should know what you are going for, when you are buying products in EA.

[SimplyRedie]

Originally posted by Jesus Christ:

So yall complaining about how buggy the game is right now but say that pte makes no sense? Holycrap get your stuff together son!

Game is in EA! It is PTE by damn definition.

[JASON BOURNE]

Omg... definetly too many special people changed to pc from console

[SimplyRedie]

Its funny cuz I dont even own a console. So that makes you special.

[Bruno Fisto]

Yes, we need one. The best example would be the launch, you could not play for days. If something like this would happen again, it would be a killing blow and there would would be a massive ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the forums. PTE is there to stop something like that from happening again.

[BRODAD3U5]

i might be the only one on the PTE right now lmao

[Borreh]

The people who do come to PTE do give us feedback and stability reports and without them the live builds would be ten times worse than they are. We ALWAYS fix multiple critical crash/stability/gamebreaker bugs on PTE before going to Live, and even a low population helps us to weed out those issues.