WOW EA admits to a cock up
Celestra:
Just seen on the official site under Freetime that EA have admitted to a cock up
If your sim has sewn the gold badge custom clothes it changes the skins file in game and the patch cannot install because of that and henceforth the message to uninstall and reinstall freetime when patching
Obviously they didnt test the patch installation but is this a first by them to admit fricking it up
rhodaloo:
My patch loaded just fine. I suppose it was a good thing my only sim who had a gold sewing badge died before the patch came out.
Alex:
Oh noes can this be!? Yep, it's true.
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=af0e6c010e9a5076852043768446ffc2&directoryID=217&startRow=1&openItemID=item.217,root.1,item.43,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23
How funny is that? They only bother testing when there is a problem. Or rather, the QA team didn't do jack shizzle and left it up to the programmers to track it down.
Inge:
In my experience very few so-called testers actually test let alone give feedback. I have a handful or less of communicative reliable people to test my hacks, and the rest just want to download the stuff and go off and whinge on other sites if it doesn't work.
I wonder what would happen if we made skins.package readonly and our sim got a gold badge? Would the game crash?
eevilcat:
Quote from: Inge on 2008 April 03, 18:11:39
In my experience very few so-called testers actually test let alone give feedback. I have a handful or less of communicative reliable people to test my hacks, and the rest just want to download the stuff and go off and whinge on other sites if it doesn't work.
I wonder what would happen if we made skins.package readonly and our sim got a gold badge? Would the game crash?
I have experienced both good and bad testing. When you have a proper dedicated test department with experienced testers it makes bugs much easier to track down. Of course that also assumes the team producing the code/content have provided detailed specs of expected behaviour for the QA team to test against. By this stage in the game EA will be far more interested in getting the product out the door than delivering something that is perfect; as time goes on the quality bar is lowered.
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