Icon passing not working in club games
Since patch icon passing was to be fixed, in quick play it works but in club games it doesn’t work.
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I won't go as far as saying there's no testing at all, but the type of bugs showing up after the recent patches certainly doesn't paint a good picture of the state of their manual and automated testing processes.
The icon passing bug should have been immediately obvious during manual testing. The XP bug, while harmless, should have been picked up by basic automated tests. And I've seen people reporting other issues with stat tracking that again should probably have been picked up by automated tests.
I've been involved with long-lived code bases in the past, and I get how difficult it can be to work with when code is piled upon code over many years. But that's why it's so important to invest in proper testing processes. To catch those unexpected side-effects before pushing things to production.
My speculation is that EA probably doesn’t allocate many devs or resources to this game because it’s not high up in popularity, nor a huge money-maker for them compared to other titles. Given that and the fact that it also seems to be waning in popularity year by year (their own doing), it’s probably essentially a skeleton crew of a team allocated to work on these things.
No disrespect to any dev, but why would we have to post a video of this issue, can you not hop on the game and see it?
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
I've got it reported. The team is looking into icon passing needing to be enabled for each game.
