I know all about testing, I was QA for 2 years myself. The size of the project and complexity of test cases doesn't excuse a release in the state it was in. Hell i would feel so guilty signing off that the game was in a Gold state i'd have probably quit.
I can understand a lot of the quest and scripting bugs that made it through. What i don't understand is the horrible technical problems in the PC version that shouldn't have made it past the first round of testing on the most popular configurations. The only explanation I can see there is their QA lab is still using XP 32-bit and 3 generation old video cards. Also the issues with the installation of the retail box and Steam Cloud also seemed like no one even tested that at all.
I know a lot of work goes into these games and a lot of people very work hard. But people work hard in all industries and customers shouldn't be made to tolerate products released in such a state. The high level managers of these companies need to learn that, maybe piracy wouldn't be so bad if people would know that their 60 dollars is going to be spent on a PC game that works out of the box.
I can understand a lot of the quest and scripting bugs that made it through. What i don't understand is the horrible technical problems in the PC version that shouldn't have made it past the first round of testing on the most popular configurations. The only explanation I can see there is their QA lab is still using XP 32-bit and 3 generation old video cards. Also the issues with the installation of the retail box and Steam Cloud also seemed like no one even tested that at all.
I know a lot of work goes into these games and a lot of people very work hard. But people work hard in all industries and customers shouldn't be made to tolerate products released in such a state. The high level managers of these companies need to learn that, maybe piracy wouldn't be so bad if people would know that their 60 dollars is going to be spent on a PC game that works out of the box.
Thank you..
my sentiments exactly..
M