Tester sollen einfach neue Charaktere erstellen, sich einloggen und ein wenig spielen. Die Entwickler schätzen, dass sie nicht länger als 20 bis 30 Minuten brauchen werden, um genug Daten zusammenzubekommen. Einige Stunden später, am 1. Oktober um 04:00 Uhr, wird es noch einen Test geben, der aber wohl weniger interessant für uns deutsche Spieler ist. Falls ihr an dem ganzen Spektakel teilnehmt, wundert euch nicht, wenn es Performance-Probleme, Lags und Verbindungsabbrüche gibt, das ist natürlich Absicht. Die Entwickler werden eventuell auch öfters Spieler manuell von den Servern schmeißen und man soll sich wieder einloggen, um erneut eine hohe Auslastung zu erzeugen.
The World of Warcraft server team needs your help!
Please join us on the Anasterian and Benedictus PTR realms tomorrow, Wednesday, 30 September at 21:00 CEST and on Thursday, 1 October at 4:00 a.m. CEST for a stress test. We’ve implemented some behind-the-scenes server updates in the Shadowlands expansion, and we’re looking to bring as many testers as possible onto those realms.
While the changes being tested will not be highly visible to you, they are quite meaningful to our game service. The Shadowlands Beta is already running these changes and we’ve had success testing them there, but never with as extremely high a number of testers on a single realm as we’d like to see.
The format of this test will be straightforward. Please log into the Anasterian or Benedictus PTR realms, create a character, and then enter the game and play however you like for as much time as you can spare us. We expect that we’ll be done with our data gathering after about 20-30 minutes. Due to the potentially extremely high load this will place on the game service, we recommend that you create or copy a character ahead of time. It’s possible that the realm will crash, and it’s also possible that we’ll disconnect players a few times to generate more load spikes. Please re-enter the game on your chosen character if you’re disconnected.
Thank you very much to anyone who can test with us tomorrow. We’re looking forward to the chaos of this test, followed by a smooth Shadowlands launch.
... aber kein Wunder. Durch den Tod kommt man ja in die Schattenlande :D Wollen also alle dabei sein. *sarkasmus*