Dethdlr SmokeJumper is looking for feedback on placing F2P marketplace items on the test server. He posted this on the official forums:
Hey, folks,
We don’t have a big enough population on the Test server to run two different Test servers (one for EQII Live and one for EQ2X), and we’d like to get your feedback on whether you think it’s appropriate for us to allow the EQ2X marketplace items to show up on Test.
Since the items are optional, it shouldn’t make much of a difference in your play style, but it would allow us to test them on a real server before they go Live.
Additionally, for anyone interested, they’d probably help leveling a bit, which is always somewhat of a hurdle on this lower-population server.
What do you think?
Thanks for your feedback.
Commentary:
I personally agree with many of the other posters that have already replied who think this would work much better if done on Test Copy. Test Copy gets wiped periodically anyway and gives unlimited station cash. This would seem to be the perfect place to “test” marketplace items.
I know a lot of folks who play on test who would oppose this. As for test_copy, nobody would care.
i play on test for the point of testing what ever it may be.
Once they put it on a “real server” like test and testers start liking these options, I fully expect for these “x” items to arrive on live, just like the mounts did. Remember, smokejumper has never been exactly honest with players and they keep taking inches eventually we’ll have “x” on live. I could be just paranoid, but EQ2 isn’t about the game anymore for SOE, it’s about the Station Cash. I would tell him to blow it out his ass, imho.