Any amount of actual testing that is ostensibly done is just farmed out to brown countries where they just lie about how much actual work is being done.
Imagine getting paid to play video games...and still lying about doing the work.
Honestly, from what I've been told about "video game testing" as a job its the kind of work that makes you hate playing video games and I'd absolutely eventually end up lying about it too if I could get away with it.
But that's the issue with any job. Making your employees not have so little oversight they can get away with it, but also having enough morale to not be tempted to.
I mean to be fair game testing is tedious as fuck. Most of it isn't playing the game it is "run into every wall from every possible angle to make sure you don't clip through and fall through the earth."
Right, but lots of jobs are tedious, some are tedious and awful and dangerous, and they still need to get done, by the people who are being paid to do them.
The existence of this evil repulses and enrages me on a spiritual level. I really do pray for global nuclear war so these places lose all their first-world funding and collapse back into the undeveloped subhuman shitholes they never should have evolved past.
Games journos and streamers, where a majority of purchasing decisions comes from these days, don't finish games. They play the first few hours and then that's where the majority of people make the decision to go buy it or not. Games journos will never revisit it, and the streamer probably won't either (and if they do it'll be stretched out over weeks to give patches like this time to happen).
So from a pure soulless business perspective, its absolutely valid to rush out a game that's got a functional first half and then spend the next few weeks/months after its "gone gold" and released finishing it up. Especially as the majority of players will only play a few hours per week, so you theoretically have time to get things finished before they reach the bad parts.
Its not a great setup for all the obvious reasons, but that is what happens when Corporations enter a hobby industry. They treat it as a numbers game with retarded standards like that.
When leftists say things like being on time and working hard are white colonialist ideas, they're not wrong.
Imagine getting paid to play video games...and still lying about doing the work.
Honestly, from what I've been told about "video game testing" as a job its the kind of work that makes you hate playing video games and I'd absolutely eventually end up lying about it too if I could get away with it.
But that's the issue with any job. Making your employees not have so little oversight they can get away with it, but also having enough morale to not be tempted to.
I mean to be fair game testing is tedious as fuck. Most of it isn't playing the game it is "run into every wall from every possible angle to make sure you don't clip through and fall through the earth."
Right, but lots of jobs are tedious, some are tedious and awful and dangerous, and they still need to get done, by the people who are being paid to do them.
The existence of this evil repulses and enrages me on a spiritual level. I really do pray for global nuclear war so these places lose all their first-world funding and collapse back into the undeveloped subhuman shitholes they never should have evolved past.
Games journos and streamers, where a majority of purchasing decisions comes from these days, don't finish games. They play the first few hours and then that's where the majority of people make the decision to go buy it or not. Games journos will never revisit it, and the streamer probably won't either (and if they do it'll be stretched out over weeks to give patches like this time to happen).
So from a pure soulless business perspective, its absolutely valid to rush out a game that's got a functional first half and then spend the next few weeks/months after its "gone gold" and released finishing it up. Especially as the majority of players will only play a few hours per week, so you theoretically have time to get things finished before they reach the bad parts.
Its not a great setup for all the obvious reasons, but that is what happens when Corporations enter a hobby industry. They treat it as a numbers game with retarded standards like that.