Free access to PTS. What do you think?

[GEEKsogen]

Hi there)
Our favorite game recently got a competitor, and I think need to take some steps to attract an audience.
I think it would be a great idea to give everyone free access to PTS. On the one hand, it would be a great marketing move. On the other hand, you will get test participants, of which there are not so many yet.
I understand that this will create additional load on the server without making any money. Therefore, you can come up with a limitation. Let's say 4 hours of gameplay per day per account, or something like that.
What do you think?

[Lethys]

letting ppl with no interest in the live server TEST the new version and give their FEEDBACK which then affects everyone? Sounds like a good plan!

[Taelessael]

Yaaaa... No. This wont give good publicity, or good feedback, it will just flood the pts with trolls and hackers (same way it did and still does for other games that get big and then make the pts free). 

[NQ-Naerais]

On 8/6/2021 at 3:36 PM, Taelessael said:

Yaaaa... No. This wont give good publicity, or good feedback, it will just flood the pts with trolls and hackers (same way it did and still does for other games that get big and then make the pts free). 

This is the behavior we see in the industry I'm afraid