2009-01-25, 07:05 AM
Finally, after months and months of wondering WHY they closed Tespia and stopped opening Content Testing before every patch (well, I and many others had theories, but I just wanted to be sure), here's the OFFICIAL answer of NxJoeW to my question on WHY it was closed.
Thank you, selfish people who partecipated to Tespia just to enjoy yourselves and didn't report bugs, thank you.
Well, at least now I can put my mind at peace. I just wanted to know the real reason because they closed it, nothing more. I'll miss Tespia, though.
NxJoeW Wrote:Well, here's the deal with Tespia. When we opened it, our original thinking was that we'd be able to catch a lot more with the community involved and reporting things. So, typically, we'd get a few thousand reports. However, when we actually went through them individually, we got stuff like:
"OMG. I got selected."
"How do I become GM?"
"fix it"
"My ticket didn't get answered."
So, for every useful bug that we did get, we'd get around 40-50 bugs like above. So, we looked into it more, and found that only a handful of people were actually testing. So when you're dealing with thousands of potential reports, the return has to be enough for you to keep maintaining it. It takes manpower to maintain essentially 2 servers every test period, and the bottom-line is we didn't get enough legit reports for us to continue--at that point, we already knew that CWK would be experienced by everyone at once, so we made a decision to close it for the time being. Will it ever come back? Don't know for sure, but that's why its closed for now. Hope that clears things up.
Thank you, selfish people who partecipated to Tespia just to enjoy yourselves and didn't report bugs, thank you.
Well, at least now I can put my mind at peace. I just wanted to know the real reason because they closed it, nothing more. I'll miss Tespia, though.

