Is there an internal Testers / Beta Tester Group?

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by MadTommy

However i cannot understand how dedicated testers with a direct link to the developers can be a bad thing. Maybe someone can answer that!

It is pretty much superfluous when we have a forum full of people testing the patch, reporting bugs on the bugtracker and giving the crash dump files (which is what they need to fix the CTDs). If it passes their internal testing and is stable, then why shouldn't they try to get as many crash dumps as possible? Why limit the sample size? As the devs themselves said- they got lucky with a crash dump giving the exact problem they needed which would have been statistically more unlikely with a smaller number of testers.