You’ve been doing this for 15 years. I know all the fan-bois will come to your defense, but history leads many of us to believe you either have no idea what you’re doing or you don’t care anymore. How was this not caught in testing?
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Bugs happen and they are actualy working on a fix that was posted a few min ago they cant predict everything thats gona go wrong.
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That’s what the Alpha and Beta are for… with they money they have at their disposal, how are we still having problems releasing a smooth pre-patch/expac?
If Activision/Blizzard would quit firing people, hiring new people, keep talented employees, and pay them a livable wage, then maybe we would get a fluid release?! #VivaLaVersailles
Bottom-line its not feasible. I’m sure you could google the logistics- but I don’t think its in anyone’s best interest in debating this.
It doesn’t matter how much money you have, you need the right kind of people to bug test things. With something as expansive as WoW in terms of content, its just not reasonable to think content releasing for this game would be 100 percent optimal. You can bring up any example you want to counter it, and I can probably look up bugs or counter with a similar title with a poor reception.
Its one of those things you have to accept. There are tens of thousands of games out there. You can take your pick, homie.
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It just shows, with all the money they have, it’s not profitable for them to shoot for a 90% success rate.
As consumers, we have been broken to expect the bare minimum from companies. That says a lot about us.
My post is mostly rhetorical. I know they don’t care and won’t ever change until their forced to, but the more of us that speak out against this junk, the more they will listen. Power in numbers!!
I am unsure how you define ‘bare minimum.’
there is a lot of things about WoW that I absolutely hate, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying its bare minimum. I did think that BFA was really short and lack luster and had a lot of time sink for the sake of it.
Further, you can have all the money in the world, that doesn’t create a good product or a product in general. People create things.
The whole “they have so much money” argument is borderline a fallacy. If I had a 100 trillion dollars and threw it at you and told you to make the perfect hoverboard you’d probably fail. It takes talent and genius to make a product. If you find that some parts of WoW for example are lack luster it probably has nothing to do with their money and just their ability.
I should preface that I am not knocking Blizzard’s ability. Its in relation to building the perfect hoverboard. - the idea is that blizzard is making a hoverboard, but it can probably never be what we saw in Back to the future.
Bottom-line, money doesn’t make a good product, creative people do… sometimes those people are in short supply and its not blizzards fault.
They are? That’s awesome!! Where do I pre-purchase? 
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They could find and do away with every bug in the alpha/beta however no one can predict what new bugs are going to show up once it hits live servers.
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Well-- its just an analogy. Basically what I am saying is that you can have all the money in the world, that doesn’t mean something will be good because of it. It takes creative people to make something good… and sometimes that is hard to come by
I’m not entirely certain what you are referring to, Tornella, I couldn’t find any specifics on what you are experiencing in the narrative that you are spinning…
It doesn’t always work like that. Our QA and Dev teams with the help of Alpha and Beta testing find and resolve a lot of bugs that pop up. Some bugs simply aren’t discovered until it goes live because a test environment with a much more limited number of players can react differently than a live environment on active realms.
We do try to resolve issues that pop up on live as quickly as we can, but that they happen really has nothing to do with how much testing we do or how much money you think are have at our disposal.
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