Suggestion: Community Test Enviroment

[_-Malicious-Melodi-_]

As it has appeared that more and more broken or buggy content is being released on a regular basis without adequate testing to clean it up. The evidence for this being having to wait almost a month to get a response to a ticket i sent in with nothing to do with that content. The reason for the delay was a large volume of tickets from the Christmas Break updates.... 2 months ago. 

As this is a problem... an NO, you CANNOT say this game is "still in beta" it lost that privilege after being released on console and being in full release for over 3 years. I am suggesting DE forms a Community Test Environment for new and upcoming content. In the week or so before a new update is released, give a selected group of individuals (it can change each time, i would also suggest sign-ups) the opportunity to run through it on a dedicated server separate from the rest of the players.This will allow for DE to receive information, feedback and reports on this new content they can respond to imminently instead of getting 10 million tickets over the week after its released. It has been shown time and time again, and DE has shown this on many occasions that players will catch bugs much sooner than the developers ever will.

Im so tired of something coming to Warframe and being broken, buggy, overpowered, underpowered, ect. Just let us players take a crack at it before its released. Im sure most players in this game would love to test something new for DE in order to make sure its working. 

[Levenna]

personally i think this is a pretty good idea tbh

[taiiat]

what gave you the informational impression that this is needed (which would be a lack of it)?

same old same old - every game Developer has atleast one layer of QA. finding problems doesn't mean they're fixed.
same old same old - people that don't know how games get made.

[_-Malicious-Melodi-_]

1 hour ago, taiiat said:

what gave you the informational impression that this is needed (which would be a lack of it)?

same old same old - every game Developer has atleast one layer of QA. finding problems doesn't mean they're fixed.
same old same old - people that don't know how games get made.

And what gives you the impression that its not needed? Obviously what DE is doing now is NOT working. It has been proven on multiple occasions that a properly built beta or Test environment will increase the quality of a game and its content. To say that a proper environment for testing is not needed is just as ignorant as saying Warframe is without any flaws... There are things wrong with this game that have been problems since update 3. AND on top of that, having another set of maybe 100 eyes looking at it increases the odds of finding the bugs and problems BEFORE it is released. 

And just as another bit of information, Dont say a person doesn't know how games are made when you, yourself do not know the person you are talking to.

Edited March 4, 2017 by PureIcarus

[taiiat]

1 hour ago, PureIcarus said:

It has been proven on multiple occasions that a properly built beta or Test environment will increase the quality of a game and its content.

And just as another bit of information, Dont say a person doesn't know how games are made when you, yourself do not know the person you are talking to.

no it hasn't. facts aren't something you decide are true. nor does that alone actually improve any games. we'll try it again - having a list of problems(from more people) doesn't make those problems go away.

it's pretty clear that it's the case. the internet is a nice 'safe space' for people but facts remain the same.

Edited March 4, 2017 by taiiat

[_-Malicious-Melodi-_]

1 minute ago, taiiat said:

no it hasn't. facts aren't something you decide are true. nor does that alone actually improve any games. we'll try it again - having a list of problems(from more people) doesn't make those problems go away.

it's pretty clear that it's the case. the internet is a nice 'safe space' for people but facts remain the same.

You are entitled to your opinions, but that's all they are, opinions. Community Tests Environments allow for a few hundred players to run through the content, find the bugs and all DE has to do is watch and record. They find the bugs before release and can add the patches before the mass number of bug reports hit the forums and support staff, That pulls stress off the developers and support stuff and makes the game better in the long run. Do not try to tell me a TEST environment does not HELP a game... because that is simply ignorant.