Quality Assurance

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I’m not sure how to voice my disappointment with Quality Assurance for the last two patches. But I feel what I am bringing today says it quite well. I submitted bug reports and help requests that are purely placed in the run around response bin. Below is my real feelings on this…(Please don’t ban my honesty)
Ah, the sweet nostalgia of simpler times — when grinding Shadowlands reputation didn’t vanish overnight like a magician’s rabbit. Imagine my shock when I logged in to find one of my accounts had been lobotomized by the latest patch, resetting all my hard-earned reputations to neutral. Not all my accounts. Just one. Because consistency, apparently, is optional now.

This isn’t just a bug — it’s a full-blown feature-length failure. A patch so ambitious in its incompetence, it decided to rewrite history. I’ve seen better QA from a toaster.

As a developer myself, I’d have sooner quit my job than greenlight an update this shoddy. At the very least, I’d have tested it — you know, that little thing where we check if the code works before shipping it off to millions of paying customers. But here we are: weeks later, still no fix, still no accountability, and still no clue from Blizzard.

You don’t get to erase player progress and call it content. You don’t get to leave reputations broken for weeks and call it ‘working as intended.’ And you definitely don’t get to charge a subscription while pretending this patch wasn’t held together by wet tape and denial.

Fix it. Yesterday.

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as someone who works in the QA field, let me tell you there is ENDLESS amounts of things that can go wrong. your dev fixes one of your bugs and another just pops up. the new bug has nothing to do with the old one, but there it is. regression is my favorite to send back to the devs (they love that).

i don’t know much about coding and certainly not game-related coding but with how big wow is, i can imagine its quite the headache.

there’s only so much a lowly QA can get done in eight hours and i have serious doubts there’s a lot of them. i’m on a team of six in a company of around 250 and lemme tell ya, there’s always more. eventually you get to the point where you just gotta let the small stuff go because the larger bugs are more important.

not saying to let blizz get away with even the small bugs, just that this post ain’t gonna do nothing. peas! :peace_symbol:

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I don’t know how blizzard qa is run, but far as i know qa only identifies bugs, not fix them. If they’re ignoring or backlogging issues hundreds of players pointed out, you can bet they backlogged it when qa found it.

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I thought they got rid of their QA?

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Sounds like a post for the bug forum; not GD.