Can content be tested before it's released?

[Granger]

Indeed game became too big and complicated project, and require some quality assurance.
Devs, dont you want to hire some testers?

We are the testers, in good capitalistic tradition we're even able to pay for being able to test faster.

[Ants]

Stuff like combat changes could be tested in Valhalla.

[pawnchito]

It's not like we are given a game that can be played in nearly unlimited ways. I mean we should expect the 2 single dudes creating the universe to for see everything that every player, especially the extra conniving ones will do. It would take them an unreasonable amount of time to go through every neat thing we can do. Some things should probably be triple checked more often (missing spawn on lobsters lol.) but overall its pretty impressive the world offers so much opportunity for distraction.

[shubla]

Stuff like combat changes could be tested in Valhalla.

Testing them in real world would always result in different scenarios.

[Fostik]

We are the testers, in good capitalistic tradition we're even able to pay for being able to test faster.

No, we are not testers, we are players in real production world, what will receive some damage if something untested or broken will be released here.
Im speaking about real persons, who will receive some info about next update, have access to special test server, and will test everything before update will be merged to current worlds.
This worth 0$ but devs will never have those fuckups

[MagicManICT]

No, we are not testers, we are players in real production world,

That's not what you agreed to when you signed up for an account. There isn't much of a TOS/EULA here, but there are disclaimers and clear statements of intent.

Haven and Hearth is currently in what we consider alpha status. In practice, this means that we have most of the core functionalities in place, those crucial gimmicks and widgets that allow the game to run and people to connect and play. However, much of the higher-level functionality is either missing or only partially implemented. Also, because some functionality is partially implemented, the persistent data in the game can be rather unstable. For example, we might have to remove the maps from time to time when we implement a new map generator.

[Uriel]

JLo dont test anything before release from what I see. NOTHING.

[dafels]

That's a lot of work for two people and a side hobby project

this and full testing every time they release something to production would slow down the development a lot, not sure what would be better. 3rd guy doing all the testing would be really nice, but i think it is out of budget for them.

[shubla]

a side hobby project

I would hardly call this a "side hobby project"

[Aceb]

Be a man of science and help us testing it out!