Do you guys even have a QA department?
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Do you guys even try out new updates before you push them live? Seriously...
It's like you don't have any testers at all.
There is always tons of little things wrong that make it seem like you guys don't even play your own game.
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@BuddyHightower_XBL
I'm afraid we're the QA department now. It looks like the gameplay engine from '06 won't survive another port to the PS6. It may completely break. PS2-PS5 on the same engines probably saved Sony a ton of money. -
@Jacob151167_XBL I refuse lol. I already have a job. You know, one where I'd be canned if I let this happen. I did a tech test one year, and it was nowhere near this bad. I won't even call this buggy because it's so much worse now. SDS is on the fast track to stooping below even EA's "standards."
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SDS dropped below EA in quality years ago
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Seriously… when I was a kid you had to finish a video game before releasing it to the public. In the first patch you are admitting that there’s like 30 things wrong with the game. (My game doesn’t function at all, I can only browse the menus).
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The comments herein about customers paying $75 to $100 to act as beta testers are accurate. But folks, this is the brutal truth. Until people stop buying the product, SDS won't change how they operate.
And I'm going to lay another brutal truth on the customer community. If sales of MLB The Show drop to such a level that it becomes unprofitable, the most likely outcome is that Sony Interactive Entertainment simply sells off SDS for whatever money that they can get for it.
But, that's SIE's problem to solve. The immediate problem is the dishonest method of forcing customers to pay good money to beta test a game, when in the not so distant past, common practice in the video game industry was to hire people to conduct beta testing, with the most common payment being a free copy of the game. The beta testing was most often carried out a month prior to planned release, and it was not uncommon for planned release to delay if the beta testers discovered flaws in the game that took longer than a few weeks to fix.
If companies like SDS have to be destroyed for the industry that survives to return to this honorable practice, then so be it! There are a lot of holding companies and corporate executives whose policies have harmed the state of video game production industry wide. SDS isn't the only problem child, but they are part of the problem for sure.
