Game developers = Loser Douches

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Cant anyone make a decent game that doesnt have some fricked up glitch or flaw

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Lets see. Do you really think a company is going to sit on a game for years while it is in QA when they can have it on the shelves? With consoles these days being hooked up to the internet for updates, they can get them out even faster and then when we (the real testers) find an issue they can supply a patch.

No software will ever be perfect

All developers are saddled with unrealistic schedules to get products released to meet quarterly earnings statements so that CEOs can fatten their pockets.

I've been beta testing games for years upon years. For example, I beta tested The Sims Online years ago, and it was fixed and tweaked until the release, but when it finally did release, there were bugs none of us had ever encountered like all of your Simoleons just...disappearing. You can't test every bug out because you'll get bugs that you can't repro or there'll be isolated incidents.

Look at Halo 2's superbounce. That was undetectable until someone accidentally did it. It was unfixable also. Software is incredibly hard to fully test too.