I would like to add: the work of the Champions in this forum is not “placebo”! They really have a lot of knowledge and insight in many areas that they pass on to the community. They enliven this forum. If it was only based on the shoulders of EA/CM the forum would be dead! They just provide the technical framework for it, that's it.
Thank you!
Agreed - the Champions are in the same boat as us and have loads of knowledge; it's just too bad the Champions seem to be constantly set up to fail. Being on the front lines of a game forum isn't easy, especially when the managing company hangs you out to dry.
I have confidence there are devs who are looking at bugs. But I'm also confident that whomever is handling the work priorities (a Product Manager or otherwise) is pushing them as a lower priority to things like seasons and getting more things into the store to monetize. What I DON'T think there are, are testers. Based on the quality of the product, my guess is that the testing being done is either automated or just smoke testing at the most. It's incredibly clear that no regression testing happened, no extensive play testing was done. That got passed on to us as the players. If there IS a testing group/agency that's being used, someone might want to rethink that relationship.
This forum is 90% Champions and players trying to help each other out and find workarounds for things. I don't expect that to change at this point.
They won't even give us a Ferrari "We are checking" response.
EDIT: I saw that a set of patch notes was posted for 1.8, which is great. But, once again, several big issues that are impacting the majority of users are not present on the list (unless they are part of the generic "various stability fixes").
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