This game needs a public test server.
If these guys are going to copy these games they should atleast do it right. If there is a robust and well tested public test server some of these balance issues would not be so prevalent. With enough data hell Sega would know more about their game and would improve it.
Why are they so backwards when so many others have done it?
You could say that about pretty much everything in PSO2.Originally Posted by ShinMaruku
"today we ask our players to help us test the game! help us fix all the clipping issues with hairstyles/accessories/costumes"
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They might as well just have their fans do all the work. I mean, you already have fans translating this game (And have better translations mind you.) so why not? >_>
this issue was in the last survey for consideration, and I'm sure you all selected it
right
RIGHT
They have to actually have an open line of communication and justify all their decisions in writing to the satisfaction of most of their player base.
You honestly think sega willing to do that when they can get the same feedback dumping it on the real server and ignore the "THE FUCK!? THIS IS UNBALANCED." Or "This is glitched to all hell." Until they feel like thinking about it.
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That's how the bigger games do it. Every new patch they put up a test server and they look what folks say. Since most people here know the game better than Sega (Because you know you play the fucking game) players can be used to crowd source data for them to adjust before patch day.
The game would REALLY benefit from informed player feedback, since Sega sure doesn't seem informed on game balance, but the problem is most players who hop on the test server for 5 minutes will probably send feedback without actually becoming informed themselves.
Best case scenario: Sega properly balances things by listening to informed players, who will of course be the minority, but will have experience with multiple classes and will have done math to work out what skills amount to what bonuses
Worst case scenario: Sega improperly balances things by listening to vocal majority and will keep tweaking and polishing the only classes people are already playing now because they're already the best
The best way to go about it would be to make everyone's classes level 60 and give then infinite free skilltree resets with a baseline set of gear. What we'll probably get is a database copy and one free reset per round of testing with only a couple minor tweaks to skills/whatever - nothing more, nothing less.
Last edited by gigawuts; Jun 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM.
^^^^^
Yeah, that's always the real problem - filtering the bullshit to get to the valid criticisms.
They could probably filter some of it if they go by people who have high level characters with many hours played.
I'm sure they also have flags checking which parts of the game each player has tried, such as area, extreme/advance quests, time attack, etc. Those could be used for filtering too.
But would they really go to that much trouble? Can't imagine it happening.
Last edited by TaigaUC; Jun 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM.
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