I can say from experience that this is becoming the norm in the software industry nowadays. I work for a software company, on the dev side of the house and I can't tell you how many companies will force out a piece of software, just to turn a quick buck. Management types seem to think that, as long as you KNOW what bugs the software has, it's ok to release it, with the understanding that the bugs will be fixed at a later date (but ifixing those bugs becomes less and less of a priority after the cash is in their pockets).
As we all know (being paying customers and all) this is not a good practice. And I can tell you, this is a very sore point with 99% of the developers that I have worked with. I've seen countless software releases that have only been allowed to go through two or three rounds of full Q/A testing and then shipped.
So, what I'm saying is, don't necessarily point the finger at the game developers, more often than not, this blame is shouldered by the upper management of the company.
Just my two cents
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