So, once again, folks are screaming at the cashier because Corporate raised the price of beans.
The lowest level you can go for complaining is the game producer, who gets their marching orders from a mid level of management, who is directed by more management, until you hit the C suite.
Berating the Devs and QA is misapplied anger.
Are their significant issues with this game and have some poor decisions been made? Absolutely. Devs and QA are implementers, not deciders. If Devs are instructed to do ABC, that’s what they do. If QA is given tasks and time limits, that’s what they do. Neither make their own schedule or decide their own workload.
Funcom’s testing “strategy” is the Beta release for each version. It depends on payers to find and report bugs, once basic, “will the game compile, install, and boot” testing is done. As someone who has submitted a shit ton of Beta bug reports, I speculate they go into two (2) categories:
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Oh shit, this prevents the game from running - fix now
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Look, we reintroduced the climbing bug for the 183,236th time, put it on the backlog.
These decisions are made at the producer level. Direct your bile there.
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