ANet has proven that their beta tests don’t work out. So please, finally give us a public beta server. We don’t have to test new content before it’s released, just lock instances for example. If an instance is broken, it’s not that bad. But every player logging in and playing normally für just a few minutes would have noticed the new bugs and regressions (the long loading screen bug seems familiar) that were introduced with the latest update. And this happens over and over again with many updates.
So just let us willing players find those bugs before all players, including us, have to suffer from them on the live servers.
Iruwen Evillan, Human Mesmer on Drakkar Lake