2008-07-09, 12:12 AM
Gamble Wrote:o.o I'm pretty damn sure I saw the El Nath bot catching monster in the real version, didn't .57 get in place to fix it? That was after Tespia was over. I don't think Sauna being opened was a glitch, it's Nexon , they forget stuff ( NPCs in this case I think? ) I'm sure they knew what they had to do before reports. The problem with Tespia is that their really ignoring some of the big things.. some of the obvious things.. that make you honestly wonder if they are paying any attention at all. ( Extra D, BodyGuard B ) In Test 3, we didn't have working Guild Notice, Buddy List was frozen , and non of that got fixed until an emergency patch got released.Yes, Tespia could be put to more use than it is now. Still, it has been helping. Imagine if the real servers were down for 4 days while they scrambled to fix the encryption problem. Maybe they "forgot" the Sauna, but the point is it was missing in Tespia, reported, and fixed in the final version. Granted that was one of the only things fixed in the real patch over the Tespia one, it still was fixed.
I honestly think Tespia is there to avoid major chaos like the encryption error, where Nexon will have a delay of their Cash Shop being opened to the public.
I think what's going on here is that they don't have enough time to read the Tespia problems and fix them before the full patch. Since they can't possibly have been fixing bugs which were reported 20 minutes before the patch was scheduled to start (and i did report at least 6 bugs directly before our 24 hour patch began), I think what they do is get all the bug reports, patch up the real version catching anything major (though this doesn't always happen.) and then go over the bug reports from Tespia, fixing things in minor patches along the way between Content patches.
It's dumb, yeah, but that seems to be what's going on. The fact is 2 bug fixes after tespia, almost everything on the list there has been repaired. Bob the Snail is back, cathedral weddings can be performed, Showa sauna is available... They do get around to fixing things even if it may not be as fast as we like.