The importance of playtesting/beta testing
Let me start with as much as I might dislike most Game Changers this isn't a post against them nor is it pointing out what is wrong with some of them. When a new pack comes out the sims team grants ou...
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Not sure if Origin even supports letting players at beta games. I only ever launch it for a small handful of games.
There are certainly a goodly number of developers on Steam who will let players play beta versions of patches, expansions etc. I realise this can still be construed as getting players to do a company's testing for free, but there is something to be said for high number of testers that beta programmes like these can attract in finding problems. They could even release patches/DLC for beta testing where mods are blocked so there is no contamination of test results.
Even running a beta programme for the last patch for only a couple of days would have caught the bugs that required a hasty hot fix and probably a lot of others as well.
I have been away for the game awhile so I wasn't around with the creation of the Gamechanger thing. I tried to find out what that was all about and it all seemed a bit confusing as to what it was for that I am now ignoring it.
There are certainly a goodly number of developers on Steam who will let players play beta versions of patches, expansions etc. I realise this can still be construed as getting players to do a company's testing for free, but there is something to be said for high number of testers that beta programmes like these can attract in finding problems. They could even release patches/DLC for beta testing where mods are blocked so there is no contamination of test results.
Even running a beta programme for the last patch for only a couple of days would have caught the bugs that required a hasty hot fix and probably a lot of others as well.
I have been away for the game awhile so I wasn't around with the creation of the Gamechanger thing. I tried to find out what that was all about and it all seemed a bit confusing as to what it was for that I am now ignoring it.
