The whole thing is a mess.
A) You can't encourage and give incentive to people through force or power. If they weren't interested before, they'll be less after your strong arm tactics.
B) It's not the players' fault that BETA isn't left open more often, so that interested persons can go in and do bug testing/playing/reporting as you had hoped they would.
C) One weekend and a few days tacked on, isn't going to give you any useful information. 95% of people who were on the server did nothing but grind raids, which were facilitated by GMs or players with GM abilities, to summon, res and spawn monsters. Half of the battle of a raid is in the logistics, planning and recovery (particularly on contested mobs). None of that was encountered. All we did was sit around until we built up enough force to zerg or overpower dragons. And NONE of those activities were laden with bug or note taking by either the players or the staff.
D) The staff said themselves that the majority of bugs and issues were fixed or gone, and that didn't expect to find any thing major........
The entire weekend BETA has just been one fun server event, that amounted to nothing. If the staff so dearly wanted people to spend lots of time testing and experiencing BETA, then they should have had the server open much more often and given everyone GM summon/res power to encourage people to start up groups and raids, giving them unlimited access to content, in order to 'test' it.
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