Game Testing

I am no EA, Blizzard, Steam, Origin or fill in the blank defender, but I do know these companies want both our money today and our money tomorrow. 

They cannot foresee all the bugs or hardware configurations each end user is going to have. No doubt, the lion share of issues are because the game desigers are using the most current drivers and hardware to maximize game performance; and I would have to believe they do their best for backwards compatibility.  However, if you have attempted to apply their fixes and customer service with little success, then post a hate post about that, but general tirades will be ignored by them.  Factual posts with examples of what they did or did not do, might get a lot more attention.

V/R Fawlkon
Game On......!

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I understand the vast diversity of gaming systems out there, not to mention trying to craft a game for every platform (Which personally seems just a bit greedy to me) is not easy. But rather then creating something that "runs okay" on every system why not take the time, push back the date a couple more months or do staggered releases so you can work out bugs. Rather then this storm of bugs they have now they might have been able to improve on the versions for PC or Consoles before releasing for more resulting in a more sustained product.

Sadly this all reminds me of Early Access games, where a company promises a finished product eventually and never delivers. If EA wass actively hot fixing or even anything for this game I would be more behind the game. As it stands now I have seen little in the way of actual help from EA and it has been the gamers for the most part finding game fixes.

Personally a lot of the debugging in this game I have done has been to system files via hack programs and hex editors just to get the thing to run properly. I gave up after I spent about 5 hours coding rather then playing and just felt so betrayed by the company that I was literally doing their job fixing a game they should not have released for another couple of months at the least.

So while it is unfair to blanket them as being completely useless, I just feel like they rushed it too much. Even on high end machines this game has more isssues then anything. Not to mention the completely solid console states that have very unflexible varibles are having massive problems. That is why I have just a sore hate for EA and sadly Bioware, whom I loved in the past but now am considering never buying another game from either publisher after this and Sims 4.

Just seems like they want us to be unhappy. I did not do this to grab attention, it was more to express my personal disappointment in the company after appreciating them for so long only to watch their slow decay into garbage games to the point I can no longer justify wasting money on their "games" anymore, which is the death of a lot of my favorite franchises now.

I have been gaming since the 80's and really only had my socks knocked off a few times (see below if you care).  But I am the first to post my dissatisfaction with a game if I feel they could of done better in a certain area, as I did with the controls in DAI.  (see link) But the reality of today is very few, if any, games are going to glitch free when they hit the market.  I will reserve my total DAI review until about a month from now and after the first real update.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Why-on-earth-are-keybindings-mouse-options-so-limited/m-p/4009187#M5380

Games that truly impressed me out of the box, console or coin machine..

The very first "Defender" coin operated game;

SSI's "DragonStrike" PC (I flew a dragon in the 80's, how cool was that)

SSI's Dungeon and Dragons series

Baldur's Gate Series, (Neverwinter came close, but did not knock the left and right socks off)

The very first Ghost Recon, Diablo, Battlefield, Star Craft, Halo, Starwars Battlefront, Skyrim, Gears 3 and the first Modern Warfare.

I would have to say, after that games have got better in the areas of graphics and complication, but sadly my socks have remained on.  On a positive note; Diablo 3 had just as many, if not more problems when it launched. But the makers made a real effort to make the game better and with the expansion and feedback from the players they made significant improvements.  I hope EA will do the same with their games...

V/R Fawlkon
Game On......!

The game was supposed to come out this time last year, so I can't imagine they delayed it for a year without doing any quality assurance.

I personally haven't stumbled upon any major bugs, which is a feat for a game this big. I have had zero crashes in the 15 hours I've put into it so far, and the biggest bug was an item not showing up in a menu, but there was a simple workaround for that.

It does seem like the game has some major issues in the DirectX renderer, so I guess they weren't joking when they slapped the AMD logo on that game. Mantle has been smooth sailing for me.

Well Fred  I don't think that could sound more like it came from a cut/paste notepad they have for customer dealings.

It's not that there is just major bugs, which if you browse the forum is obvious to see there is plenty of them. But if this is the quality we can expect on a game that was pushed back a year. I wheep for all the future releases that come out on time. That is defintely saddening news, I was expecting this to maybe be a on time if not early release. Sad to say I think your development team wasted a year on nothing if this is the end result.

Regardless, I think this will be my last EA/Bioware purchase unless I see an amazing continuation of Mass Effect... all fingers crossed after this monstrosity.