Soo... I was under the impression you guys took down Blue and left Red up with Beta in order to boost its population/keep the trolls off Beta... and then decided "Hey we need more people, let's shut down red too."

I guess you left Red up to punish people? Passive aggressiveness is pretty unbecoming.

When they said that punishment from stupidity on the beta server was going to carry over to their original character servers, it weeded out a lot of the people that would have initially started a bunch of crap from both servers. Regardless, glad they took them both down, because it did improve the testing, everyone stopped fighting for a couple of days, and the red tears were delicious and went well with a side of Velious awesome.

Totally agree, both servers should've been down from the beginning.

Seems incredibly petty. What if my good reason was you left Red up? It doesn't make sense to punish people when they weren't doing anything wrong. I think it would be really nice to give those who actually beta tested something to show for their effort, though.

I think red was left up because the mudflated blue shit show has surpassed the red sociopath twink shit show and that maybe the devs wanted to increase the population of red since an influx would be somewhat similar to a server wipe, which they won't do because of speculative suicides, death threats and unrelenting DDoS.

Nonetheless, the devs can do whatever the fuck they want. This is only few games worth playing imo and they're they ones that made it possible. Maybe I am sucking the devs dick when it comes to people complaining about the two day server shut down, but I'm pretty sure, as a heterosexual male I've said at some point between 2004-2008, "I'd suck a dick for a classic EQ server."

Where's the red tears?

The reward for testing is a bug free Velious. If you need some motivating factor beyond that then you are most assuredly a feckless ingrate.

Why can't the reward for testing be that you get an expansion a little bit sooner and a little bit more bug-free than you would have had otherwise?

"We are self-entitled" - The voice of P1999

I tested. Found and reported a couple bugs. Still, I'd rather have found those bugs playing my main on live.

Wanna do something really classic? Release an expansion with a shitload of bugs.

I guessed forced beta was a good idea, though. I spent so much time secluded to Velious that I'm already bored of the expansion.