Today was the third phase of the alpha test I'm currently doing, it was supposed to have started 20 minutes ago. However when I couldn't log in the game I went to their forums to see whats up. And this is the message I see from the gaming company.
During the alpha test that occurred on Apr. 15, 2010 at 18:00 (GMT), due to characters logging with with damaged data, there were a number of server issues and many had trouble staying connected to the alpha test.
As a result of our investigation, we have found that while some characters were deleted because of data issues the other day, all of the damaged characters were not deleted. Because of this, we will once again be isolating and deleting the characters in question.
Additionally, while we plan to deal with this issue with all possible speed, we do not yet know when this will be complete. Therefore, the alpha tests for Apr. 15 and Apr. 18 have been canceled.
The next alpha test dates will be posted as soon as the issues have been resolved such that we can resume.
Ok, so I can understand there's a problem and what not. What I cant understand is the testers reactions. I see this as even more of my time wasted. Because I could have gone and done something esle instead of sitting home waiting on the alpha test to start. Most of the other testers though seems to be completely content by having their time wasted again and again. This is some of the responses that were posted in the forums, made by the testers.
"So ? It's not a problem at all"
"Patiently awaiting the next round of testing, and here's hoping they might even get some more work done until then!"
"I think it's good that they've cancelled todays and saturdays tests. It gives them more time to work out some of the problems such as the informous high traffic error."
"And I think it's a pretty good thing they they've cancelled today's and sunday's tests, prolonging the tests will give them extended time to iron out more bugs and issues they know about."
"I wasn't in the mood for testing, anyway."
"One side of me is like ok, more time equals a more stable server and playtime for the next time."
"Good on them deciding to take the time to get it right."
"just looking forward to being able to log on, get in and play a little."
"I guess it's best for them to take the time and get it right. Less frustration in the coming weeks."
"if the next time the servers will be more stable I will wait with pleasure."
What the...?
I mean really? This gaming company keeps wasting your time week after week and giving you nothing in return, and the best you people can come up with is "thank you sir, may I have another?" Now I know the european, japanese and americans have different forums, and I have no idea what is said on the other 2. So I cant say if its just europeans that are this gay or not. Or is people just afraid of getting pissed off? Think they'll get kicked from the non working test we're supposed to run if they get mad and voice their opinions? I myself have already tried to reason with these people, but unsuccessfully. It's like we're talking different languages, which we kind of do I guess, but still.
This is how I see it. The damn gaming company shouldnt have realeased any alpha/beta test at all until they had done atleast some testings by themselves. We are supposed to be testing the game for bugs, and so far no one has been able to stay logged in long enough to know what is a bug and what isnt. The only thing we have done so far is stress testing their test server, which there are very good softwares that could do.
I dont know exactly how many testers there are, but lets say its roughly 2000 testers in each area, Europe, Asia, and America, thats 6000 testers. Now this gaming company is wasting 4 hours for all of us 3 times per week. thats a total of 72000 hours per week. To make an example, if you work for 8 hours per day, 7 days per week you work 2920 hours in 1 year. Not alot of people actually work every single day every week. But you get the point. If you were to work 8 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year. 72000 hours equal 24.5 years of hard work. You can only imagine how much money you would have made in 24.5 years. Basically this gaming company is wasting 24 years per week for us testers. And these people (the gay testers) just goes along with that and think thats all fine. What is wrong with people!?
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