Well, yeah. But how are they supposed to test any of the high level stuff with only GM-created high level
characters? Isn't that shortcut one of the reasons they've claimed that so many things were "working"
when in fact every normal player knew they were not?

Kenross Cantoforjado, 51 songs, Innoruuk

"Stephen E. McCloskey" wrote:

> Well, I hate to sound like a hard ass but, it has always been said since
> day one that test is not a live server and be aware that your toon could
> always be wiped. Anyone playing on there agreed to that. People are
> supposed to be there to test the new patches, zones, items . . . what ever.
> Not to "play" like people on the live servers do. Anyone on test should
> have seen that it would one day come down to a p-wipe.
>
> >In case some of you don't know, the entire player-base on the Test server
> >was wiped yesterday. Verant's reason being they wanted a clean slate to
> >conduct ongoing tests. Fair enough, I suppose - we wipe our test database
> >from time to time to clear out all the junk that accumulates - but for those
> >that had characters there, my condolences.
> >
> >I can only imagine what it must feel like to have built up a character over
> >the last year to have it wiped, and with little or no warning from what I've
> >heard.
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