Can We Please Have a Beta Release for Rivals of Ixalan?

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jtwood
jtwood Posts: 1,285 Chairperson of the Boards
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Ixalan is so very, very buggy. And not just the cards. Even the game infrastructure seems to be experiencing new and various bugs that appeared with the Ixalan release. I am sure a good portion of us are reasonable people and understand that the switch to Oktagon was unplanned and probably happened suboptimally (to put it politely). Problems were expected, and I think we can suck it up a bit in return for knowing that the game is transitioning to better hands in the long term.

But if problems like this were to happen again with the Rivals release, I would venture a bet that it would be catastrophic.

In order to hedge that risk, would it be possible to have a public beta period that would give us the ability to assist with identifying bugs before they hit production?

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  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,730 Chairperson of the Boards
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    I'll have what he's having
  • THEMAGICkMAN
    THEMAGICkMAN Posts: 697 Critical Contributor
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    I wholeheartedly agree
  • julianus
    julianus Posts: 188 Tile Toppler
    edited February 2018
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    That's an interesting idea. I've seen it before, but only for larger scale games. I wonder if they have the resources to set up and manage a separate beta server that allows player access?
  • Corn_Noodles
    Corn_Noodles Posts: 477 Mover and Shaker
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    They have assured us that there's a well-qualified team that already does this.
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
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    Corn Noodles said:
    They have assured us that there's a well-qualified team that already does this.

    And they have a cameo on this card:


  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
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    Ok, that was mean and uncalled for...

    Unfortunately it's far too easy to mean when people are faceless, nameless and there's a strong suspicion they don't really exist.

    My apologies to the _real_ testers who are undoubtedly far more handsome and/or pretty than that card, because they really are trying to wrestle lightning right now.


    I'm a professional tester and I totally grok the extreme difficulty of trying to balance all the different levels of intent and implementation while under the cruel eye of a vicious pirate overlord.


    (From now on I shall find pictures for all my posts, it improves the metaphors substantially!)

  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,730 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited February 2018
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    Kinesia said:
    Ok, that was mean and uncalled for...

    Unfortunately it's far too easy to mean when people are faceless, nameless and there's a strong suspicion they don't really exist.

    My apologies to the _real_ testers who are undoubtedly far more handsome and/or pretty than that card, because they really are trying to wrestle lightning right now.


    I'm a professional tester and I totally grok the extreme difficulty of trying to balance all the different levels of intent and implementation while under the cruel eye of a vicious pirate overlord.


    (From now on I shall find pictures for all my posts, it improves the metaphors substantially!)

    Hey I think I found them

    httpnerdistcomwp-contentuploads201711MTGUST_PICjpg


  • THEMAGICkMAN
    THEMAGICkMAN Posts: 697 Critical Contributor
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    @Brigby do you know if this is a possibility? would you be able to find out for us?
    after seeing all the bugs with RtO that could be ironed out by having a beta...

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