See. Some think I am exaggerating when I say they do not care about actual game related feedback. They didn’t even give this the benefit of an extra week and decided to flush out this issue filled build right away.
I guess they need to meet some numbers by whatever pack sales they can get since the lack of new Patron red-eye rewards means they cannot run one of those frontloaded 6-month subscription specials yet.
The benefit of PTS is being able to get an idea of the numbers like what breakpoints to reach, how much soul tokens the average player will need for Capricious runes (since Hellspawn runes aren’t going to be fixed), how much stones to refine that to max, how much G7’s and pure tears will be needed to get to +15. The more the remaining players hit +15, the higher the probability they will roll out a new artifact tier sooner in an intermediate update.
One thing some folks at Trion do know about is player psychology so they are hoping that some of the PTS previewing will spur some of those folks to whip out the credit card when it starts taking too long on live to get the necessary materials.
