Rewards for test live

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Rewards for test live.

I only suggest this because of the recent string of exploitable bugs that started with sorcery chapter 2 and continued into chapter 3.

I logged into test a few times but as far as I could see there were very few people there.

I was then curious if testlive was being used much to test for bugs AND report them.

So as a suggestion

Why not have rare rewards that are craftable by accounts that find bugs and such and report them to the devs?

Rewards useable on their accounts that are used on official servers.

I’ve seen another game do this and the lure of rare items brought testers in.

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Several exploits were reported during the last beta and made it into the launch anyway.

Rewarding players for reporting bugs won’t solve Funcom not fixing them in time for launch day.

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Thats sad

I hate to think that after finding a bug or exploit one must post it on youtube thus creating a hysteria on official before the devs will tackle it.

The skull exploit was tragic but was fixed quickly after it was placed on youtube.

I will hope for a better way.

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Finding exploits is the easy part. Duplicating them if the steps are known is also easy. Finding and resolving the cause is never easy, nor is it quick. Some recurring issues are new since they are caused in different ways. When a fix is applied, the development team has to consider the other systems in the game that may be affected adversely by the fix. Correcting issues, even exploits, is never an easy or quick process.

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removing the potion of yellow lotus is something difficult to do? :face_with_peeking_eye:

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I think any one willing to play beta deserves something for their time
Something unique that doesn’t spell. Check sucks with the rest of game u people deserve something :sleepy:

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People who beta test get to experience the new content first. That is the reward.

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Exactly.

I run Testlive via the server app, not because the public servers are often unavailable, but because, well, the public . . .eeeew.

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:roll_eyes: yaaaaa right.

See how well that works. Just droves of people so ready to see the new stuff. All 10 of them.

The “public beta” is simply there for content creators to make free commercials for funcom.

Am I wrong?

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You dont say? Noone forces you to release buggy or exploitative content after it has been reported while being deployed on testlive.

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Actually, the marketing team probably does force that. Developers usually don’t decide release schedules.

This isn’t just a Funcom problem, but a problem with just about every major game studio. The bolder ones may postpone releases if serious bugs etc. are found before release, but it’s usually not those companies that spend more money on marketing the product than developing it.

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Rewarding for testlive won’t really work. You either need to reward people for simply participating, or actually bug fixing. Here’s why both of those do not work:

Simply participating means people will login, get their rewards do the bare minimum, and then log out. Thus getting rewarded for not really helping.

Having people go through actual bug hunting steps for the rewards is problematic because then the effort isn’t worth the reward. Most people already don’t want to download testlive. But then they have to download, actually play it in a manner to find bugs, copy down the steps for the bug, write it down in a report, and then send it off? There’s not many people willing to do this. And the ones who are, already do.

Also I would like to point out that the current Closed Beta and Public Beta system DOES work for the most part. It does catch the nastiest bugs before they go live. Much of the bugs and issues that do hit live are either stuff that needs hundreds of players or more to find, or are issues caused by under performing servers. Both those situations getting more players into Public Beta servers won’t fix, unless you get like a sizable chunk to go there, which is never going to happen.

So any sort of reward system for this would have very small results if any, even if it was successful.

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I don’t need a reward or anything for testing an upcoming update in their public beta test servers, but at least they could wipe them between updates and do a daily server restart, no need to make the experience worse than necessary, maybe then a few more would actually test it on them :slight_smile:

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I mean, kinda…

But there’s been a number of issues with Bazaar items and those only get tested internally by Funcom themselves.

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Pay them in croms to buy stuff in the bazaar, on the public beta. Time ACTIVE; yes autorun would be active. Bonus croms for bug… proper bug reports. Let them spend those croms on passes too.

Seriously the time to find out a $$ piece of content is borked is not after people buy it, get a refund on it, and write a review based on that experience.

Same can be said about buggy updates. But Funcom is committed to a scheduled release date so…

Catching and fixing are not the same thing.

I need a reward. Acknowledgement of the bug report.
Now the way I like to do things; creature of habit, I like to get confirmation I’m not the only one having the issue before I report it.

I will point out the 2 err umm issues that snuck through to live because not enough people were looking for exploits on the public beta. Any issue that can be solved in a week could have been solved while the build was still on the beta servers.

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i have alreadu posted how they can yest this. Internal server purposely set up to have ping spikes and lag. So that is not excuse not to test that way imo.

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It sounds like a good idea at first but to reward people reporting bugs fairly would be a nightmare.

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That just shows bugs and glitches, it doesn’t give any indication on how to fix them. We already know how to fix that, use a better server configuration. That’s a hindsight problem that can’t be fixed for a subsect of servers. People who choose to play on those simply have to live with it.

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As (mostly) paying CUSTOMERS, no we don’t. Not when it is advertised as Max 40 players on official server.

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If that was ever advertised (and I don’t think it was), it isn’t anymore. After six years its been an acceptable loss for everyone. If not by word, than by action.