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Gaming at work.
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Fun Fact : While Just Cause 2 was in testing Avalanche noticed that playtesters discovered a bug where they could latch themselves to explosive items and use them to propel extremely high in the air. They patched this bug out of the build and were met with such a resounding "put it back" response from the play testers that they made it part of the actual game.
ID: gt5q3zaID: gt5r0ohIt's popcorn entertainment made interactive
ID: gt5urhmI enjoyed 2 so much more than 3, and have yet to touch 4 because of the launch reception. Is it worth my time? Am I just being weird?
ID: gt6k51cNot really. It's fun for about an hour then it's the same shit over and over.
ID: gt7uuzbThis is probably how Skyrim was born, with all its features
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There is no ‘if’.
“It’s a feature not a bug!”
ID: gt52vfrThat's what the programmers want you to believe.
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For many companies, the QA department actually does find most of the bugs, it's management that then ignores them
ID: gt5gg30It's going to be a priority juggling game. Do you delay the release of a game by six months to get everything on your issue list fixed? Or do you release in time for Christmas?
It's part of the reason crunch periods are only getting worse.
ID: gt63ppwIt also doesn't help that companies see, time and time again, these choices have little to no impact on final sales. Destiny launched with massive fundamental issues, still has some quality of life things to add and it didn't stop them from finding massive success.
ID: gt5hgeyAnd if they do pay attention, no one who's actually working on the debugs has near enough bandwidth to give the issue serious attention. It's either pushed to the backburner where who knows if anyone will ever be able to get to it, or it's given number 1 priority on top of numerous other number 1 priorities.
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I think these were forgone right?. Day one players are the new bug testers? arguably the bigger the test pool the higher the chances to find bugs I guess.
ID: gt5qaieThere are still hired bug testers to find the big stuff and assign those bugs to tickets. Early adopters just find everything else.
ID: gt5pno8I guess many early access / beta releases are technically the "bug testing" part in game development, but I'm sure most dev studios still have in-house testers as well?
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Did QA on the console port of Terraria. There was one guy who did so little actual work, at least he wasn’t being payed for it.
ID: gt6hr2kWait, you guys weren't being paid?
ID: gt6hvgqI wasn’t, neither was the other guy. We were interns. I was interning under someone who was being payed for doing QA though
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Must’ve worked on Borderlands 3
ID: gt55unfOr Cyberpunk 2077
ID: gt55xqvOof yeah. I forgot all about that game about a week after it came out, thankfully I canceled my order before I got it.
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How did QA work on the development of Skate 3?
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This reminds me of a co-worker who jokingly responds with "I didn't do it" when we say her name. I usually reply, "You have to stop saying that. We might be calling your name because you legitimately didn't do something you were supposed to."
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Did anybody else think Orange in frame three was looking backwards with angry spiderman eyes?
ID: gt66j1rHAHA oh god, I can't unsee it now! Thanks for the laugh!
ID: gt6dphe... he isn't?
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Nowdays they just cut out playtesting and release early access like cyberpunk
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the problem is he isn't orange
ID: gt6t4osOrange is his name, yes.
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Playtesting Black and White on the PC (back in about the year 2000 I think) at Lionhead's studios was horrendous.
The QA team were awesome and meeting Peter Molyneux was pretty decent, but going through the hundreds of animation checks, waiting 1+ hour for multiplayer builds to be updated and then transferred across the internal network was soul-destroying.
Genuinely put me off being a professional games tester for life.
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*CDPR/Cyberpunk 2077 QA Team has entered the chat
ID: gt69kewMy bonus panel says Bethesda, but that's probably going to be less accurate now that Microsoft is on that.
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dev testers dont 'play' games. its actual work.
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Low effort drawing and writing. Fired.
ID: gt66h43There is absolutely no reason to be rude, though?
ID: gt66klnYeah, you're right. I'm just grumpy. No reason for me to be an asshole.
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Laugh all you want, I've been gaming since I was a kid, and coding professionally for over twenty years. A few years ago I started working in gaming as a coder (amongst other things QA automation), and I was required to play, intensely, for several weeks to get to know game mechanics etc. I felt _extremely_ guilty playing at the office, out in the open, like some bum. And I ended up having a conversation just like this.
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The joke here is weak af
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Must be the Blizzard offices
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If you are leading, you are not playing.
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Just cause is such a good game series.