Setting this up for questions. I know there are many at this point. I will update this post in the coming days with more detailed info but for now I'll put a few important resources/links here.
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Bugs that are in the archive are generally still open unless they were fixed at some point but nothing can be added to them cause all the bug report is now done in the new bug forum. I know it's confusing but it has to do with the kind of board the new forum is. It's different from the other boards and hence stuff could not be merged. The statuses are exclusive to the new bug forum cause they can only be set to in the forums of that new type.
The bugs in the Archive are still very much on EA's plate and being looked into and it's in no one's interest if every bug report in the archive is re-reported cause that causes a lot of unnecessary work for everyone involved.
The rule of thumb is: You don't need to make a new report there unless one of these apply.
- You have additional information to add (not just: I have this too)
- The bug thread in the archive has little to none engagement. Unfortunately you can't see the me toos that were there but the amount of posts usually is an indicator
- The thread is still very old and didn't have any engagement in say 2 years. I do think it's worth re-reporting these but that's a borderline case
When something IS re-reported, I will put the thread in the archive on [ARCHVIED] and link the current new thread. There are some that do have a new thread but I haven't done that because they were reported before the migration and I didn't go backwards unless the thread was bumped. Also lots of manual work. The thread you pointed out doesn't have a new thread as far as I'm aware.
QV stands for Quality Verification and is basically what used to be called QA (Quality Assurance) and is the Maxis team in charge of checking this forum and fixing bugs.
Let me know if you have further questions or if that clears it up.
Thank you, the clarification is super helpful.