"Jarvind;c-1841055" wrote:
"Roopehunter;d-201958" wrote:
Erik just said that theyre putting thousands of hours of testing into every new character interaction.
Yeah, I just straight up don't believe that. Thousands of hours against what? Clearly not against "the most dominant team in the game" which probably ought to be, y'know, top of the list. Likewise, previous lolcounters of this magnitude have been found almost immediately by players, i.e. Nest holding off JKR teams until they tweaked JKR's kit specifically to prevent it.
They're just saying whatever they think will generate the least backlash.
They probably do commit thousands of hours to testing. Not all testing is team comps or dinner but humans. The large majority of their testing is probably automated and checks for functional bugs. It probably spits out a bunch of metrics for them to review as well. It probably even ran JKR + JKA vs DR + Malak. Without a human controller on either side it probably looked normal due to AI inefficiencies. The effort to setup and execute automation is significant, and the result reviews can be as well. Many teams include this in the "hours of testing" or as CG said, "man hours of testing."
Where you can reasonably criticize them is in the manual review and play testing they should have been doing in parallel. They clearly missed something here. And that doesn't mean they're lying about the thousands of hours of testing.
Source: I test complex software and distributed systems for a living.
