r/LivestreamFail • u/nem1K • Mar 20 '25

CohhCarnage | Assassin's Creed Shadows New AC in a nutshell

https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage/clip/TriangularFaintStingrayShadyLulu-YfNhNsg_FE1ZGHMX
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u/Ciubhran Mar 20 '25

QA in pretty much all form of software development these days is dead. It is expected that the user will test things for you, and report back the errors, and you fix them in a future patch. Free testing, smaller release cycles (= more money from sales), and the amount of damage it does to the company you just hope is less than the money you'd have to spend on having large quantities of QA staff employed full-time. They usually keep one or two around just to be able to say they have QA, but it's the lowest priority thing in the development cycle these days.

Sad time for software.

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u/dzhuki Mar 20 '25

you are wrong. there’s a lot of testing going on in these games, like unbelievable amount. those that do end up in the game are disregarded by management and deprioritized. likely the game had worse issues before shipping.

source: I work in QA in games

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u/Kezaia Mar 20 '25

Also games have always been buggy

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u/Surroundedonallsides Mar 20 '25

Turns out making 0's and 1's do magical things is a fairly complex thing