Test server question

[Blindrage]

<DIV>Do you all on test have to pay for EQ2?  You should get a free subscription in my book, after all, you are testing their game to make it better and bring them in more dough.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just my thoughts, don't know if this has been rolled around before or not.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Samnas]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Blindrage wrote:<BR> <DIV>Do you all on test have to pay for EQ2?  You should get a free subscription in my book, after all, you are testing their game to make it better and bring them in more dough.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just my thoughts, don't know if this has been rolled around before or not.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> If it was free I really imagine their paying subscriber base would drop in half.  There are bugs on test and bugs in live server, but I think for $15 a month way too many people would choose to put up with the additional bugs/downtime on test servers.  I know I would.

[Blindrage]

<DIV>Thought they may cap the player base after a certain number is all, maybe 500-1000 people on test don't know the #'s but I was not saying let everyone and their dog join test.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV>

[Samnas]

<DIV>Ya then I am afraid what you end up with is those that get in before the cap just being there to play for free and really have no interest in testing.  Not saying everyone on test right now is interested in finding bugs, but I am sure a lot of them are.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I would like to see them give points for submitting bugs/exploits.  The points could be converted to personal status points (spendable at status merchants) or something like that.  Probably would be a pain and time-consuming to track something like that, but it would be a benefit for actually testing the game.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>