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Originally Posted by JScones
They did that with SH4...did it make a substantial difference to the quality of the final product? I mean, a difference that justified both the cost and the risk of some goose releasing the game early?
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Silent Hunter 4 was not Beta Tested in the true sense of the word....at least not by anyone at subsim. I was one of the Beta Testers on SH4, and we were not working with a full Beta version of the game. It felt like a very early version of the game. The Beta Testers were involved way too late in the process to have any impact, and I can think of 4 issues that I flagged that were still issues when the game was released.
In all fairness, 3 of the 4 issues were addressed in later patches, but on another game I Beta Tested for another publisher, we were involved much earlier and with a real Beta version. That game was much healthier at release.
