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Originally Posted by MadTommy
Having a volunteer, i.e not paid, team, testing specific changes to the game not only improves efficiency but relieves the developers from this work. .
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I think the recent open testing and crash-log submissions, resulting in a less-than-1 week turnaround in a hot-fix that is widely regarded by the community as having fixed the main issues (issues that were hanging around for 12 months or more) demonstrates how amazingly efficient the open source testing is.
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Originally Posted by MadTommy
BS like 'don't download the patch if you don't want to test'.. is well BS.
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Why is it BS?
The open source testing has been amazing for this game. Once the devs decided to collect crash dump data from the community their knowledge base went through the roof - and so did their ability to respond. So it's obvious that providing the patch to everyone who want's to help out, is a good, good thing. So, therefore it's here to stay...
No-one is forced to adopt the alphas/ hot fixes. They're not automatic updates, but freely downloadable. There are still servers online running the pre-patch versions. You opt-in to test.
And if people are not interested in being part of that testing process, then they need not.