popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
Internal dev crews should, in theory, be the best at testing raid content (or any content for that matter) because they already know the underlying mechanics and can easily set up and repeat testing conditions. The problem is very often devs seem absolutely terrible at playing games, even their own. Sure, they could give them time to play/practice on the clock, but shit costs money, and short term goals are more important than long term ramifications of player testing that have already been discussed.
I know a couple people who have actually worked as QA supervisors or testers at companies like Nintendo and Microsoft mostly bug-testing games, but for some reason mmos with huge budgets don't seem to want to pay for this kind of thing? or is that just my assumption/perception and they are paying for it, it just isn't enough?
Then again, maybe I'm just naive because I also don't understand why studios like Bethesda release incomplete or boring games that modders will have to fix for free, and can't seem to just hire those modders before release on the cheap. Legal issues? Insead of letting a modder work for name recognition alone, they have to pay the same guy a shit-ton to develop something that is shit until a modder comes along and fixes it for free?
I know a couple people who have actually worked as QA supervisors or testers at companies like Nintendo and Microsoft mostly bug-testing games, but for some reason mmos with huge budgets don't seem to want to pay for this kind of thing? or is that just my assumption/perception and they are paying for it, it just isn't enough?
Then again, maybe I'm just naive because I also don't understand why studios like Bethesda release incomplete or boring games that modders will have to fix for free, and can't seem to just hire those modders before release on the cheap. Legal issues? Insead of letting a modder work for name recognition alone, they have to pay the same guy a shit-ton to develop something that is shit until a modder comes along and fixes it for free?