time2lose@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoHeroes of Might and Magic III hits 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews because Ubisoft forgot to add the gamewww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHeroes of Might and Magic III hits 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews because Ubisoft forgot to add the gamewww.xda-developers.comtime2lose@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square46linkfedilink
minus-squarejustdaveisfine@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoIts surprisingly easy to fudge up this kind of thing if you’ve seen Steam’s back end. That being said, getting a miscofigured game all the way to launch is kind of wild.
minus-squareCrypticCoffee@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoWith a QA? Surely download and install a game is the first basic test case?
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoYeah exactly, this means not a single person that wasn’t already fired and replaced with exec-level managed talking to Claude existed that could try the game out before setting it to public.
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 hours agoWell, they didn’t try out the version they were shipping via Steam which is not quite the same thing.
Its surprisingly easy to fudge up this kind of thing if you’ve seen Steam’s back end.
That being said, getting a miscofigured game all the way to launch is kind of wild.
With a QA? Surely download and install a game is the first basic test case?
Yeah exactly, this means not a single person that wasn’t already fired and replaced with exec-level managed talking to Claude existed that could try the game out before setting it to public.
Well, they didn’t try out the version they were shipping via Steam which is not quite the same thing.