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Originally Posted by pocatellodave
I was wondering if SHIV had any ...tongue in cheek...beta testers.  It's just that I recall some of the sim companies using volunteers to check out their products for bugs. |
Yes they did. Many of the beta testers, were infact from subsim.com. I, as well as a few others here
(to know who they were, all you have to do is watch the credits, their listed there) were approached by the devs, asking if we were interested in beta testing SH4. NDA rules applied, so beta testers can't and wont tell you much.
While i had the opportunity, in the end, i passed on it because i didnt have the time to give it the proper attention it deserved. (that and i didnt want to burn myself out from beta, before i had the real thing in my hand). So the following statement is a guess on my part. I don't think it was an failure on beta testing, or on the testers part. Who better to test it, then some of the grognards from this very community? I think the devs knew full well the bug reports, but due to time and money constraints placed upon them by the stuffed suits at Ubi Headquarters, had to prioritize which bugs to address, and which ones to let go. I really think the devs knew fully (and probably painfully) well the state of the game when it was released.
I personally, blame the timeline and budgetary decisions made by the corporate suits more then id blame the code monkey chained to his cube trying to meet an imposed deadline.