Does anyone know how this game got passed MS certification to be released? Surely Microsoft should realized this game was unstable.

microsoft dont test games as such. they dont sit there and play the game from beginning to end.
all they do is test to make sure the xbox live infrastructure remains intact and anything related to it. eg. silver members dont suddenly gain access to gold member content because of a game executable error.

its not up to microsoft to police the games. when microsoft get the patch they wont care if any of the bugs are fixed, only if xbox live is affected or anything to do with it. eg. dlc.
its up to the developer to make sure the bugs are fixed.

Oh you mean like when a very major disc-based release allows free access to a bunch of SNK XBLA games?

The only thing which the Microsoft/Sony QA/cert/testing process does is delay releases. There are countless examples of horrible, game breaking, Live/PSN breaking, and data destroying bugs making it through.

It's a joke and we need to keep calling it out as such until they start actually testing games and stop wasting everyone's time.

then steam must be the same in your view because the game has just the same bugs on the pc release.

Steam is a different beast entirely. So much so that multiplatform patches which are released to cert at the same time on all platforms are generally either released on Steam ahead of the consoles or held-up on Steam because of the developer/publisher's need to release the patch on all platforms simultaneously.

Considering that Steam involves such a huge variety of hardware/software setups compared to the console space's very limited and fixed hardware setups it's downright pathetic that Microsoft and Sony can't get things through more quickly.

I am pretty sure Microsoft test the game for stability and to ensure they play correctly. After all it's in there best interest that there console gets stable releases.

I could be wrong.

No, they don't do through testing of games. They don't have the time to do that. Think about what you're thinking Microsoft is supposed to do, test every aspect of every game that comes through? What do you do when a major glitch comes along and you can no longer continue playing (like for me, ED-E got lost somewhere and now I can't fire them to gain REX as a companion so I can't get my achievement)?

Something like that would not be in the best interest for Microsoft anyway. A developer could just write a game with little to no testing and release it to Microsoft; knowing that they'll test it for them.

It's up to the publishers and developers to test games not the console manufacturers. There are that many games being released that MS can't possibly spend hours testing each game. I doubt they have the staff.

The thing is the game isn't unstable for everyone.

So far i've noticed a few minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking.

I've done the Come Fly me quest twice and never got the corrupt save error. I got to the strip last night and the game didn't freeze.

So even if MS did test the game they may not have encountered any problems.

"IS" Microsoft to blame as well? Sigh...Am I going to have to bring my Little Brown Handbook with me when we discuss these matters? I'm just kidding guys...I would doubt Microsoft has anything to do with this. It was released on PS3 as well, therefore I doubt Sony has any fault in the matter either.

Microsoft and sony should test these games, or at least fine the companies that release games like this on their systems.

All games have to go through certification before being released on Xbox.

After reading some stuff, I understand that they games are tested for standard compatibility with all the functions on the guide button, while within the game. But they also test for stability and to ensure the game can be played from beginning to end with out issues such as constant crashing or save/load errors. Obviously if these issues aren't always present or are obscure they can be waived.

Also I believe Microsoft don't do all the testing in house, but out source it to other licensed testers.

Microsoft do game testing in exactly the same way that sony don't and nintendo don't.
this is pure speculation with no basis in reality, this is in fact complete and utter bobbins.

The only games that microsoft, sony and nintend test are there own in-house games.