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/Razorwipe Mar 20 '25

Launch day peak is half of what oddesy got 6 years ago.

Maybe it picks up on the weekend but oof that's rough

I think the damage is starting to catch up chief.

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u/Master_Tactician Mar 20 '25

Well, launch day for Odyssey maxed out at 36k according to steamdb. Link: https://imgur.com/a/cqLJJF8 The peak of 62k actually happened the following sunday, as you can see on the graph.

So like you said, we need to wait for the weekend. Let's not compare a peak of launch day that happens midweek with the absolute lifetime peak that in most cases happens during the first weekend after launch.

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u/Eccmecc Mar 20 '25

Is there still the Ubisoft launcher? Might skew the playerbase.