Overly Positive

So Mythic’s looking for its subscribers to hopefully make the Public Test Server not an empty wasteland so some testing can get done for Warhammer Online, which is why they’re introducing incentives to get the job done.

In addition to all the stuff that’s being thrown in for the patch, qualifying contributors (that is, people who don’t just login and logout to say they tested) will be eligible for being randomly selected to win one of the neato griffon or manticore mounts Mythic’s been giving away as part of their Recruit-a-Friend program.

Gotta say, it’s a good idea to give away stuff for a PTS. It’s tougher to test something because your character isn’t permanent, the bugs and problems from a patch always seem to be apparent and experienced in excruciating detail (whaddaya mean I wasn’t supposed to get hit for 34344?!) and the players just don’t seem motivated. As much as it is a bit capitalist, it’s a good way to go about for tests.

I wish these incentives would be applied on some level in the main game for reports, bugfixes, and posting on forums. The real issue is that a lot of people who can’t bother to post feedback in a productive way seem to be the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. If there were incentives for sounding like a rational human being, maybe forums would see better feedback than what they get now.

So get on that PTS, WAR subbers, and give them the feedback they need!