I appreciate the concern some players have expressed in this thread.
The players in charge of organizing this thing have all the best intentions regarding the server and community as a whole, we appreciate everything kronos has offered so far, but the pvp has come to a point on the live server where we are not able to arrange premade v premade games in the way we would like, largely due to the fact that horde has difficulties gathering enough players for a group.
The PTR removes these kind of restrictions allowing each player to choose a faction and allow us to have 2 full teams as long as we have enough players. It's also nice for people who are interested in kronos and vanilla pvp in general to have a chance to test out the content and thus it can also provide a promotional boost for the community and server.
This does of course not mean that we would abandon the live realm and play only on the PTR. I think that everyone is more interested in playing on the live server and I believe also that everyone hopes that it thrives. The PTR would just allow us to do things that are not accessible on the live realm at the moment due to numerous different obstacles.
The gear/consumable/item ban list is carefully thought out and everything has a reason, the list is still subject to change.
Furthermore, speaking in general, if this sort of thing that is proposed in this thread, does not get you excited I strongly believe this forum section is not for you.