gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin?

Nobody, whether they're "hired" through an application process similar to the MWLB, or if they're just another public tester, is going to be able to find a bug within a patch that a developer or official tester can't easily find themselves.

Oh really? There are many, many bugs which people are able to find within the first minutes a new patch is released. Many of them are really noticeable, like the lack of some NPCs for some Balrog-related quests.

If a developer or an official tester from NEXON can't even find these evident bugs, I think I'm free to think that he/she is an incompetent or hasn't got any experience of previous game testing.

As it should be. We all know Nexon is an incompetent group of idiots, so what makes you think the collective idiocy of GMS could do any better? From my past experience with the first Tespia no one was testing anything. There was just smega spam and people wanting to Zakum. Do you know what that means? Tespia was full of low-leveled GMS kids who wanted nothing more than to experience the big game. They had absolutely no desire to find bugs. As expected, when the patch went public it was full of bugs.

Your argument is that Nexon should take Tespia applications like the MWLB. But why should they waste their time? Nexon is obviously content with their current employee testers. If anything, the Pirate class is evidence enough that they do not give a shit. Besides, Nexon has stated themselves that they ended Tespia because they didn't want to spoil the patch contents ahead of time.

Just drop it for the sake of everyone's sanity.

They said that they didn't want people to experience MASTERIA content ahead of time and that they wouldn't have released Tespia for that, not that they would have stopped opening it because of that. Besides, I think that Masteria / exclusive (e.g.: "Episode 1") content would be one of the MAIN content to test, as it wasn't released in any other version before.

But yeah, I admit as well that, after my experience in all the three rounds, everyone was more interested in doing Zakum runs etc. than testing content, which was the main purpose of Tespia. But that's because I'm saying they should do MWLB-like applications.

Yeah, maybe they would waste their time, but this could be a good chance for them to not have to hire testers and to let GOOD PEOPLE test. Maybe something good could come out of that. Who knows.

Again, I'm confident that if they modified some aspects of it, Tespia would have a great outcome. Don't say that they'd be wasting their time: we can't know how Tespia would be if they chose testers more thoroughly like I said. It could be the same or even worse, sure, but it could be better as well.

Sure, the last Tespia rounds were a failure and they were just full of idiots who weren't testing AT ALL, and all the reported bugs weren't fixed (but that's because of the people who got in Tespia, not because of NEXON).

But just because the previous Tespia rounds were a failure that doesn't mean that they're still going to be even after the improvements suggested by some users.

If they're content with their current testers, then they don't realize that they are doing an horrible job, because within the first minutes a new patch is released, people already start finding bugs.

If those people got in Tespia, they could avoid some patches from having certain bugs.