A lot of us pre-purchased Heart of Thorns to get access to the beta with the intention of experimenting and testing the raid content. As soon as the beta went live, we updated, made new classes, and waited outside the raids, only to get inside and get booted immediately. If you were lucky enough to get to make it inside of the raid, you would grind through three trash mobs, only to get dc’d by the boss. Most of us waited for hours for the UI to be fixed outside of the portal, only to be greeted with forum posts saying “we’re working on it”. After having it confirmed as working by a developer as “fixed”, we logged back on in an attempt to get back into our raids. If you had the misfortune of being tagged during this time any change of map or dc would leave you done for the night.This didn’t just affect those of us attempting to test raid content, it affected the commanders who were participating in reset night on wvw, Guild leaders taking their guildies through missions, and even people who were generally helping others and were tagged up at the time.Due to the extent of the issues and the hype that came around the raids and the Beta Weekend in general, I feel like some form of compensations would be a nice condolence to “heal some of the wounds” not just to the beta players, but everyone affected by the unfortunate bugs yesterday, as well as to boost the moral of the community for the expansion to come.
Diesel Dog [Obey] Tarnished Coast
The self entitlement in this post hurts me
It’s a beta weekend, it’s for testing purposes, not early access. The Squad UI was severely broken and caused issues across the entire game, not just raids. They need to test this stuff on the live server’s so that they can find the bugs, and later down the line fix them. Rather it now than when the game actually releases.
I’m pretty sure he mentioned that it caused issues across the games…. and its not self entitlement i know i waited multiple hours outside of that raid to test it and they never put it up. I understand its beta but you cant put up non working content for players to try out and then just go oh well. If the raids weren’t working then simply dont throw them up on the beta. What actually happened though was we were told we would get to test the raids and they didnt work then when they tried to fix them they broke it more. I understand its not as simple as i make it out and i do appreciate the opportunity to try out the beta AT ALL (had LOADS of fun as reaper XD) however people have a right to be upset that they didnt get what was kinda promised to them.