Community Relations Archive
Thread: Proposal: Release pubs every 4 weeks with 3 weeks on TC and reward for TC play
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wildcat84
Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:57 pm
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Final released publishes would be of higher quality than they are now if the cycle were simply doubled.
Instead of every 2 weeks, double it to 4. In the meantime, the pub is on TC, and on TC-clones of "real" servers, and the bugs reported there are fixed there via "hotfixes" (which we currently get live). Once the bugs are deemed fixed, the pub goes live.
To encourage participation, I suggest that the server that is on TC get special rewards and perks to encourage their players to play the TC copy of their server rather than live, such as, say 2-4 weeks of double XP on their live server after the publish is deemed worthy of release, as a reward for participating in game QA, and to make up for any loss of progress by participating in the TC.
Comments?
This surely is a better way to do it than is done now. Giving out such a reward (or other in game awards, such as items, plaques, decorations, etc for those who actually PLAY on TC-server) would make the time your server is part of TC an eagerly anticipated time! And this would cost SOE little in terms of effort or cost, and get them greater QA participation by players.
Instead of every 2 weeks, double it to 4. In the meantime, the pub is on TC, and on TC-clones of "real" servers, and the bugs reported there are fixed there via "hotfixes" (which we currently get live). Once the bugs are deemed fixed, the pub goes live.
To encourage participation, I suggest that the server that is on TC get special rewards and perks to encourage their players to play the TC copy of their server rather than live, such as, say 2-4 weeks of double XP on their live server after the publish is deemed worthy of release, as a reward for participating in game QA, and to make up for any loss of progress by participating in the TC.
Comments?
This surely is a better way to do it than is done now. Giving out such a reward (or other in game awards, such as items, plaques, decorations, etc for those who actually PLAY on TC-server) would make the time your server is part of TC an eagerly anticipated time! And this would cost SOE little in terms of effort or cost, and get them greater QA participation by players.
Message Edited by wildcat84 on 07-10-2005 06:01 PM
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