"JoAnne65;c-17111414" wrote:
"Simburian;c-17104722" wrote:
"SimChi;c-17104430" wrote:
"jooxis;c-17103651" wrote:
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.
Good to know where your defense mechanism is coming from, and the insistence regarding bugs. I suspected, because of the insistence ... and now we know. It is a demanding job, of course, a lot of jobs are. Sometimes, though, as hard as it is, people need to recognize their abilities and limits, and step back so that others- who have been producing better products - can do the level of tech that is needed. That is not a slam. It is just about recognizing one's limits... In this case, it would be the lack of ability of some members of the team being unable to meet normal game standards. That may also be a management failure; hyping a product before they can even ensure that they have a team who can accomplish the task- and have the time to do so (which makes it appear that it is dev & engineer incompetence, rather than a failure of management).
Can I ask what your own technical experience is in game development?
I don’t hope anyone will ask me what my medical experience is when I’ll need surgery one day and assume the doctors will do a proper job. Or what my mechanical experience is when I’ll need a plumber.
“Hi, I apologize for disturbing you, but after you paid us a visit my bathroom is flooded?”
“Ah, yes lady, that can happen, is that a problem? May I ask you what your own experience is with plumbing..? ... Ya, thought as much. Buy a mop. Bye bye.”
Considering that my doctors didn't diagnose my Coeliac Disease for over 14 years and apologised for that, I think I know more about it than they do now as, being an ex-librarian I do all my research. It's only one of hundreds of illnesses they have to deal with and my own doctor is interested in news from the Coeliac Society research articles. I am totally on top of it without them having to bother now. As for plumbers! I think I might go on a plumbing course as the first lot of plumbers I used for a ever running cistern were useless and the next vastly overcharged me for fixing without seeing it but then paid me the overcharge back. (honest plumbers)
From what I see in Activity the OP has trouble with Sims 4 working at the moment on their machine so am interested.
