Talk:Test Realm/@comment-95.49.235.92-20121006163931

This all is pretty simple. Consider PTR as an Riot-only server, where they put the alpha-version of varius stuff and THEN decide whether will it be playable or not. This being said, have you seen the ingame screenshot of Omen? He's been on PTR, playable for Riot, because they've been developing him, even though he didn't get into the game.

Same goes for the Fool's Day Lee Sin Spotlight, I believe. They messed the numbers a bit and pushed the game to record it (tho it might have also been made on another server, to not to disrupt the testing gameplay).

And about the player accounts on PTR, consider these people as beta testers. Riot has a fistful of players on their team, but still, they need SOME community feedback on the changes BEFORE it gets on PBE.

That's the difference between content on PTR and PBE. If ANYTHING appears on PTR, you're not in any way promised to see this content in game. PBE however works for the sake of de-bugging the content that IS already on it's way to the live servers.