Alpha/Beta/PTR Testing is Useless

[Subutai-argent-dawn]

One day after official release, Blizzard: “Endgame Dragonflight gear were extremely powerful relative to that initial content”.

No kidding! DF endgame gear is 520+ and TWW initial quest reward is 408. 100+ item level difference is clearly extremely powerful for early questing. That’s just simple maths.

Blizzard obviously knew this, because it designed all this. The hotfix is needed for the balance, but it should’ve been done during PTR, long before it went live.

After months of alpha, beta and PTR test, Blizzard didn’t even notice the most obvious things like item level, leveling scaling and dungeon difficulty? Then it miraculously figured it out after EA period ends and just 1 day after official release? Come on…

What on earth did Blizzard test on PTR? The test quality is pathetic…

[Dejarous-draenor (Dejarous)]

Thanks for pointing it out again. I’m not sure we had enough threads saying exactly the same thing.

[Záprdek-golemagg]

It doesnt make sense, what were they thinking. Its balanced for 400 gear?
HELL everyone has 480 minimum, even 5 hours old alt characters, fully leveled up to 70 during prepatch have 480 starting gear!!!
And they somehow managed to ignore it until the very stupid release day!

[Záprdek-golemagg]

IF we manage to create like 10 000 duplicate threads, maybe Blizz will finally read any of our feedback, maybe they will even start caring about the game and the playerbase. Im joking, Its funny because its true

[Subutai-argent-dawn]

It is simply scandalous that Blizzard didnt notice such obvious thing and correct it during months of test on PTR.

[Subutai-argent-dawn]

Leveling/dungeon/delves scaling was a joke. The months of testing was absolutely useless.

[Twopizzas-ashbringer]

beta has become more a marketing thing than anything else.

alot of players bought epic edition solely to get acces to beta.

it has become early early acces rather than something the devs use to perfect the actual product.