My miserable testing experience this week has me on the verge of leaving the game forever. I will address three issues here:
1. This game is a bandwidth whore: When I am at home, I use a 25 mbps connection. However, for this testI was at a ski resort this weekend and did not have the world's greatest internet connection. I would get OMGReloaded at least 5 fucking times before I could connect. Then, once I finally connected, I would have to wait 30+ seconds per street to get in. This was especially bad at my house and any streets where there were a lot of people. Once I logged out on a random street and when I came back the street was being used for a project and I could not connect. That really fucking sucked.
2. Preparing food/beans/etc: At the beginning of the test, I had to reload every time I used a device with its own window (i.e. Fruit Changer, Awesome Pot, Bean Seasoner, etc.). Then I had to deal with the connection crap I mentioned above. This was annoying, and I got really pissed off.
3. My final in-game action: At the end of the test, I wanted to make ONE cumin. After I pressed the "make" button, I got OMGReloaded. Astoundingly, I only had to refresh once to get in. Fucking miracle, I thought. But no. I decided to make cumin again. When I pressed "make," I was told "another action is in progress" or some such crap. I remarked on the help channel, and, as has become typical the last few tests, none of the staff responded. Then, all of a sudden, I lost a huge amount of energy and got ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE cumin, which used all my painstakingly collected allspice.
As you can tell, I am furious. The game has been total crap for me this week. As a closing remark on my (formerly awesome but ultimately shitty) time playing glitch, I leave you with this line:
Fuck this. I'm leaving. Forever.
Edit: Let me make two things abundantly clear. One, this is nowhere near my first alpha testing experience and am well aware of what it entails. Two, I have been here since the beginning and up to this point enjoyed encountering and talking about problems. This was just way too much.