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Do you think they play test anything at all?
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For example merely 18 Months after Halo 3 was released it was announced that players had played Halo 3 an accumulated 2,023,153,340,764 seconds. That's a massive amount of time.
How much?
Over 64,000 years.
The odds are against developers because they will never be able to test the game nearly as much as players can play the game and if there is a bug, no matter how small or unlikely, they will find it merely through the laws of probability.
Heck one time I was running through Velosk and going across the stepping stones in front of the waterfall area I got stuck between to rocks. I jumped into a crack that I have tried every time since to reproduce (hundreds of times) and still have failed to ever get wedged again.
Just a few days ago I jumped off the rooftop next to the main staircase and got wedged between a tree and the wall (ask Aandrethegiant for pics). I have jumped off that rooftop thousands of times and have never got stuck before. Tried to jump the exact same way again...no avail.
The devs can test for hours but they will never be able to be as thorough as the players.
If they do test it, then it's really sad.
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So their department should be renamed to just "A" instead of "QA".
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No they don't..
because its every employees goal to make sure the customers are as unhappy as possible, so they do this by doing the worse job they possibly can so they can risk their lifelong careers and find themselves potentially out of a job with bad references and no one most likely wanting to hire them again. This allows them to get that luxury park bench they have always wanted to sleep on in about a year after they have gone bankrupt and lost everything...
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We can realize there are priorities and some things which may be an annoyance to the gamer may not be a higher priority then something far more critical so it gets put on the back burner for a while. Also the fix may not be as simple as changing a few letters around in the code and Voila its fixed..the fix may affect other elements in the game and that takes far more time and resources to find the problem fix the problem and test the problem.
Depends on the quality of the bug/exploit report. If they can't recreate it they can't fix it. Look at the recent CW 1 shot boss report, it was missing info about a class skill which was required, which is why a few people posted saying it didn't work as described. There's also a report that using at wills with a certain feat tree (bit vague that) and class skill causes stealth to refill. I tried it as described and nothing happened. If it's not pinned down chances are some people will try it and stumble across it by luck and it's going to get into the next content patch.
We, the player base, will ultimately put in far more time and look at things in some very unique ways. That is why there is a reporting system. They do need to be able to review the issue, verify and reproduce it, then narrow down what is causing it. This takes time and in some cases they may need to patch around it, as trying to fix it directly may cause a cascade of other problems.
Exploiters, currency farmers, and their like put the same level of effort and hours into trying to find the breaks they can take advantage of as the devs do in developing the whole framework of the game. For some, it is their job to exploit, it is how they make real money. So it stands to reason they are going to find and exploit weaknesses before a tester or even a regular player notices.
It isn't fanboy-ism to say that they test they game. It is a simple fact. They test for stability, they look for flaws and exploits, and they run through all the content. It is just that, we the players, will put vastly more time into the playing.
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code might be "great" within their own functions (a feature) modern programming all lot of feature work together. This is where bugs may "creep" in. You have a bunch of programmer to make sure THEIR code is great, but to test the possibility of one code could break another is pretty hard.
This is where test server comes into play. When you have thousands of players trying to "cheat" the system, that is where the true testing come into play. This is why many games have test server to see how things work together.
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I just got access to the preview server but I cannot see an option to copy my main from beholder over to it and I don't see the Moon Elf anywhere either , what am I doing wrong? lol
After you signed up it should have presented you with the copy page. Click here and you should get the option to copy.
They dont fully test anything what other major flaws that are obviously never caught during so called play testing.
Its either they do play test but never fix anything with the known issues they tested. Or they dont fully play test it.
Funny, I think I know the exact spot you mean because I got stuck there too, and then a little while later saw someone else obviously wedged in the same spot (sent him a tell to say I had to change instances to get out and he probably would too).
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/stuck got me out with no problem. At least I am not the only one who has gotten stuck there...!
But I have never been able to get myself stuck again haha.
When BWE 3 was on they said that this is why they have beta's so people can find things that they might of missed.
I'll try and find where i saw it.
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I admit I didn't try /stuck because it never works for me when I need it to, in a skirmish or foundry, and I always have to use the suicide option. When I'm stuck anywhere that changing instances is an option, I just automatically do that. In this case, you're practically at a fire already.
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You would have to supply that link because that has never been said in anything I have seen. They test their stuff extensively but accept the players are far better at breaking the game than they are for the same reason myself and others have stated.
More than likely you simply misinterpreted what was stated. Acknowledging the truth of the situation isn't by any means saying they do not test their own content or try to break it as much as they can in house.
/stuck gets you out of a confined location which inhibits your ability to move.
It's not particularly good (in fact it's quite useless) at getting you out of pits or other such locations you were never intended to get to. This is because it simply tries to displace you to a nearby location (within arm's reach) and not really to move you a far distance.
If you can't move /stuck will often work. If you are somewhere you just shouldn't have ever reached you'll have to change instances or /killme.
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The only thing I can think of is that they ran out of money and/or got some sort of corporate pressure to push the release of the game to start bringing in revenue.
Could be worse, you could be in a game that doesn't PTR anything at all and end up with all kinds of imbalance and bug issues. This is tame trust me.
>>cough Arenanet cough<<