Re: PVZGW 2 BORING ?!?!?!?

@ UDBlackFist

Back in the day there were people called games testers........ Folk like you and me who were paid bare minimum to play the same part of a game over and over again in order to find bugs before release. You know, the days when a game had no choice but to be right first time around because there was no such thing as the convenience of live updates to right the wrongs.

Let's look at the GW2 beta test that happened a couple of weeks before launch. My interpretation of a beta test was to make a game available to the general public in order to gauge feedback on things that aren't quite right with the product and assess accordingly. A huge army of free games testers if you like. The developers then go away, collate the data, fix accordingly and either release a second beta to confirm changes or release the game as a working product. Correct?

Well apparently not. In today's day and age it appears that an open beta is merely a platform for advertising a game prior to it's launch - with any problems (gamebreaking or otherwise) pencilled in for patch/es after it's release. Think about it, there's no way on god's earth that a game can be public tested, assessed for issues, fixed and readied for release in a couple of weeks so how is it possible that the GW2 beta was released to do the job it was supposed to do!

 So no, I absolutely disagree with your comments because everything is controllable and there is no argument as to why a product is released in sub-standard condition.

Listen, nobody cares about the minor bugs in games (these will happen regardless) - what people bear a grievance to are the ones that are so blatantly obvious that it's almost painful to comprehend how they were overlooked in the first place.

I paid £55 for a day one experience - an experience that I fully expect to be exactly the same as that of someone who goes out and pays £29.99 for the same game a few months later.

I did not pay £55 to discover that the game may not be exactly what it says on the tin and just I'm part of some ongoing fix-a-thon in order to make the game a better experience for those who pay £29.99 for it.

Anyone who actually condones the latter is inadvertently part of the problem.