Here is what I wrote:
The devs still haven't answered the question of why they didn't leave PS online and leave our server running.
I know they needed it down for the test, and also for adding the updates.
BUT why not use a test server, or create one.
It's not like they CAN'T, there is nothing stopping them.
And if there is I'd like them to name it.
Frankly, it is bad policy to take off a game for extended periods of time.
I'm sure they lost a good 100 new users or something like that.
So please, devs, answer, why you haven't created some sort of test server?
Please don't dodge my question either.
Thanks for your time, looking forward to the update 
Here is exactly what Anne wrote:
I'd like to think the part of that fellow[datruth]'s post [where he suggests 100+ new users got lost] is about, new fresh crisp from the dl users... I was thinking of posing this mention i'm making when the server was first closed to the public, but at the time figured this would be updated sooner than my laziness would ebb...that having been said, let's get back to what i was getting at: New users, who have just dled the client... not trying to moan n whine about it -- but [EDIT: I may be way off base with this question as seen in gondric's below post etc]--WHY? Why are there still links up on the main page to dl the client? If it's about laziness; my hat's off to you... mean i thought of this days ago & procrastinated this long, so i can respect a healthy degree of sloth... If any of you are wondering "To whom is the hat off??"--it's you. because none of you took down the links or posted a warning like "Downloading this outdated version of the client will waste your hd space, bandwidth, energy and time." and don't go thinking you're unworthy of praise for your inaction just cause you didn't have access--if you were less lazy you'd hack the site. Can't hack?--if you were less lazy you'd learn how... Getting the idea yet? good... so yea; if laziness: Congrats!--if just an oversight; we all miss something sometimes, just something to be aware of..
PS- [heh get it; PS on PS Forums hehe]--
Gondric-- I'm with you, i may be starting a new job monday, hope i get to play before i am reduced to 4 non sleeping hours at home...(oops, now you posted that last bit while i was typing- and now i am a lil confused--i'd understood it was going to be a new full client, not just an update)
Andrek-- I don't think it takes a dev to answer your queries: testing is going like the enegizer bunny; keeps going & going...Anticipated wait time... i'm gonna go ahead & pretend you mean the actual dl time, not when it will be relased-- the answer to that is that it will depend on your own connection, and how many other seeds/peers are on when you download..
Kalila-- If previous updates are anything to go by, it will also be mirrored but when first realeased way easier (for yourself & hosts) if you just use utorrent or a similar torrent client.
Datruth-- I'm sure if you're offering to fund, support & maintain another server we'd all encourage you. Otherwise i think you may want to work on how you show grattitude; here you get to play a game & be involved in its development process for free. The people working on it aren't paid for it [unless they work on it while goofing off at other jobs]. People have suggested splitting the server; but lets face it, if possible, that just means more work for them, and that means a longer wait for updates. And even if it didn't, the server has enough issues without splitting it. Anyway, all that aside (hope nobody other than you minds me being so 'holier than thou', but i think it's gotta be said) you act like a petulent child who is given a privelledge, like his own room, then when forced to spend a few nights sharing with siblings so the father can work on the plumbing, complains that the dad should convert his den to a new temporarty room for this complainer, like the kid's entitled or something.. Should be grateful the higher ups round here are more forgiving than me 
; I'd probably toss the kid in the garage or the shed or the doghouse. The plumbing is for everyone's benefit. Guess it's lucky I don't have kids... or a house... or a viscious dog... 
but back to the point-- Boo-Hoo you're put out for a few days; apart from the ones WORKING on it, so is everyone else, but nobody else seemed to act as snide & entitled about it as you. If i was woking on it I'd probably be even more bothered by your post, and if i was in any position to i'd try for some sort of disciplinary action like suspending your account a few days after the update just for the disrespect... Clearly no one in a posion of authority is as unforgiving as me in this case...
BUT why not suspend your account, or ban it.
It's not like they CAN'T, there is nothing stopping them.
And if there is I'd like them to name it.
Frankly, it is bad policy to take flak off an ingrate for any periods of time.
I'm sure they lost a good 100 new users or something like that. so what's one more?
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...ok, at this point even reading my preview of this i can't help the overwhelming desire to reply to the post I'm writing just to say "You make good points, very erudite. But do you really need to flame the guy so much?" ... So i'll admit the sentiment was expressed harsher than it needed to be, but the general idea remains: I am unimpressed with your peculiar way of saying "I like this free game a lot!! I wish i could play it right now!! It bothers me that I cannot."
I'm sorry, but did that seem offensive to ANYONE but anne?
We have a thing called Logic, and logic explained to me that there were things called TEST servers.
My logic then asked, "why don't we have one".
I asked the question.... and here i am getting flamed.....
I'm guessing it might be a funding problem, and i'm also guessing it might be too much work.
I also have read EVERY single page of this thread, since it opened, so someone might conclude that i am VERY dedicated to this game.
YOU can't tell me that when the server went down, the question of why there isn't a test server didn't hit you.
It did.
Some of us, being here longer, understood why.
Others, who are newer to the game, didn't know, and didn't understand they were strapped on money.
I am VERY glad ANNE
is not a Dev nor will ever be, attitudes like that end up destroying communities and hurting the very player base that CREATED them.
I liked this one sentance of Anne's very much:
"but back to the point-- Boo-Hoo you're put out for a few days; apart from the ones WORKING on it, so is everyone else, but nobody else seemed to act as snide & entitled about it as you."Did i complain, EVEN ONCE, about the servers being down, READ MY POST NOW, was there even one place where i said I CAN'T HANDLE THE SERVERS BEING DOWN, HELP!!
All i said was this:
"BUT why not use a test server, or create one.
It's not like they CAN'T, there is nothing stopping them.
And if there is I'd like them to name it."Very simple question, and i have yet to get a reply from an actual dev, it was mostly the rest of the community that replied.
It's fine because I think everyone else who replied to my topic gave me the correct answer, money & time being the main reason.
Again, please allow others to voice their opinions, and not make a mountain out of an ant hill.
Everyone that read and understood my post gets a flower.
