Originally by: Elsa Nietzsche

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The test server is for testing and that is it.

The benefit of allowing everyone access is that it gives you a larger sample set and raises your chances to find issues early.
But many of the 900+ people on were not testing. Yes, some were, and those people will still be interested in logging onto the server after CCP removes the all skills at lvl 5 silliness.
The rest of us will go back to TQ and play our game. The test server does not have the capacity to handle jita traffic in one system and there's no sense in them spending money on that kind of hardware for a test server. Further, CCP should not have to babysit the test server; especially on the weekend. This is their work, and some people like to be able to go home and do other things with their free time. For the most part, the system has worked well. Even if some people were logging in to play around, they generally didn't cause problems for the dedicated testers. During this event however, the entire system became more trouble than it was worth.

Shutting down Sisi was not an act of punishment, it was a solution to a problem.

Maybe CCP will open Sisi up to the public again in the future, but maybe they won't.
The reality is, this is more of a headache to CCP than it is to us because now they have to decide what they're going to do about the test server and if they're going to implement some policy to allow access and who's job will it be to handle that BS task.
For the players, it doesn't really change anything. We're not paying to test on Sisi, we're paying to play on TQ.

TL;DR
HTFU

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