"jooxis;c-17103651" wrote:
"SimChi;c-17102044" wrote:
"jooxis;c-17102022" wrote:
Bug free games don't exist (unless they are extremely simple games). It's not like they want to release them full of bugs. I don't normally defend EA but your post is really strange and naive...
Saying that bug free games don't exist is actually the naive statement. And, yes, they are releasing them- knowing there are bugs, and a lot of them.
I make games for a living. Bug-free games don't exist. Especially newer, more complex games on the scale of the Sims. Just cause you haven't encountered any major bug in some game you play doesn't make it bug-free.
I didn't say they were releasing them without knowing there are bugs - of course they know. I said it's not like they intentionally want to release them full of bugs.
This is so true though. I've sometimes encountered these uber random bugs in extremely polished AAA titles and thought "man if I'd never gotten into this particular cave and done this exact sequence of actions, I would've never even known this game had bugs". But it's easier to find and fix them in largely linear games. The sims is unfortunately anything but linear and bugs are caused by a huge amount of if's (and can be connected to anything from traits to actions to pack combinations, and so on). People sometimes forget how hard it is to find and eliminate bugs from that - even more so without causing any new ones.
