Buggy Games Editorial

The funniest part is that some of the QA teams could've done a better job if only they had bought/built a specific kind of computer for testing: an Athlon T-Bird running on a KT133A with a GF3, all running Windows 2000. I bet that if Dynamix/Sierra and 3DRealms/GoD had one of those, then both Tribes2 and Max Payne would've had less nagging bugs.

Is this really a big headline story?

Yawn. I couldn't care less about the problems of an industry that can ship such crap as Team Arena and Kiss Psycho Circus.

Just work harder on improving the games, fellas.

I guess Blizzard doesn't suffer any of these problems :)

Buggy games/software can only be contributed to bad testers and producers/designers that just don't care. They're more concerned about meeting their release date and selling their product than they are making the consumer happy.

But, that isn't always true with everyone. My experience in the EA.COM testbay has definitely put me in a place to see where people definitely care about their job, and how their work represents them. It's nice to hear that a development studio has specifically requested your testbay be used for their product despite the existence of said employers multiple test bays.

we r0x0r. :)

--Loco3KGT

Games ship with major problems because they're not finished yet, and it costs additional money to finish them that the publisher or developer doesn't want to spend.

What a bunch of shit this article is.

I don't know if the writer is trolling or needed a topic to write an article and make money.

To sum up the article;
Games are buggy because of buggy OS, Hardware and Device drivers. Also there are time and money restrictions.

No shit Sherlock. How is this different from any other software project?

How does this explain why some games are released with the same code as beta? (AO) Or how universally the game suffers from bad performance? (Tresspasser) Or when you do have lots of money and time but still fails? (Ultima 9)

At the same time, consumers need to learn to tone down their rhetoric and try to make their criticism more constructive and less hostile. If we want these gaming companies to survive,

What?!?!?! I don't want these companies to survive just because they produce games. I want them to survive so they can do good work.

we need to stop trashing them so much and start trying to help,

They need to listen before we can start to help them. If a game can't even install or does not work with a video card, what sort of critism should we write that would help them? A snipit of code? A link to a MS Support page?!!?!?

or pretty soon there won't even be any buggy games left to complain about over on the PC side of the aisle.

No buggy games in our stores? Heaven forbid! I hope that there is some developer right now producing a buggy game so are aisles aren't empty of buggy games and our country will be rich and bountiful of aisles and aisles of buggy games.

firingsquad is still online?

gawd another 1 paragraph 20 page article that could fit on 3 or 4

damn

No complaining