This beta doesn't seem like it's making any progress. Every time I login 90% of the testers are AFK in trainers 24/7. There is a small amount people to play with, do dungeons, team hunt, etc.. I've basically had to play solo the entire time on the beta and it makes testing unpleasant. Not to mention there is only handful of people who are leveling. I have no idea what the rest of the players are doing, but with this low amount of players it's not very productive.
I think one of the reasons is that no one feels like leveling through all the low level content. I personally think we should have started out the beta with characters preset to mid-level with reasonable gear. This way we would have skipped all of the boring content that no one wants to grind through and we could go straight into testing the new content.
About the beta ending early; it should be the exact opposite. Why would the beta end early if we haven't even tested anything new? At the current rate there is no way we will be able to test all of the new content within 7 days. I'm pretty busy with life so I'm not able to dedicate all of my time into grinding non-stop (nor would I want to on a beta). With 2x exp it will take quite some time to get a decent level.
We need the beta to test content, find bugs, and give feedback so I don't think closing early will do the server any favors. I'm hoping you'll think of some way to speed up the progress because it seems like you are losing the interest of most players.
I think one of the reasons is that no one feels like leveling through all the low level content. I personally think we should have started out the beta with characters preset to mid-level with reasonable gear. This way we would have skipped all of the boring content that no one wants to grind through and we could go straight into testing the new content.
About the beta ending early; it should be the exact opposite. Why would the beta end early if we haven't even tested anything new? At the current rate there is no way we will be able to test all of the new content within 7 days. I'm pretty busy with life so I'm not able to dedicate all of my time into grinding non-stop (nor would I want to on a beta). With 2x exp it will take quite some time to get a decent level.
We need the beta to test content, find bugs, and give feedback so I don't think closing early will do the server any favors. I'm hoping you'll think of some way to speed up the progress because it seems like you are losing the interest of most players.