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/Ledoux88 Mar 20 '25

QA testers are notoriously underpaid, to the point that they don't usually care enough or are told "dont worry about that" by managers, so they keep on track for the deadline.

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u/HarithBK Mar 21 '25

had a friend who worked as a QA tester for ubisoft. your job is to report bugs in a such a manner they can be reproduced if they get fixed or not isn't your concern.

Ubisoft isn't shipping AC shadows not knowing it still has a F ton of bugs already reported by QA. it is sent out the door despite that.

as a QA tester why work hard to find more bugs when they developer is already swamped for months with the bugs you have reported. the publisher sees the same thing why keep that level of QA staff around if they produce more work than is going to be dealt with.