- Joined
- Oct 13, 2012
- Location
- Melbourne
- Online Cricket Games Owned
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - PS3
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - Xbox 360
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 - Steam PC
As @knockedin said, no one intends to use the game as it is out of the box. I am a Software Engineer in Test. The food on my plate is got by testing software. What people of my trade do is create drivers, stubs and mocks of components which are not available and run our tests with those to ensure production like(customer like) environment as much as possible. It is lame to say that academy teams weren't available so you couldn't test it. You might have to hire better Quality Assurance folks. I know you are the CEO and get quite angry if people tell you what to do but as a customer who purchased the game on day 1, I feel I have the rights to say it. I feel cheated. I evangelized this game to my friends and made them buy it and now I look like a fool for doing so. I really wanted to like this game. I persisted with it hoping things would be okay. But a couple of days ago, I just hit the breaking point. I had posted in another thread that I am done with this and not going to post anything here again. But since BA staff himself was responding to this thread, I wanted to give one last shot at getting the message across. We humans have lots of hope, don't we
Writing drivers is *nothing* like writing for an open-ended user generated content system - as a professional you should know that.
If you've never written for console then I seriously think you're underestimating the task at hand, even the best of Rockstar and EA have games that are DOA - as the best engineers say, you don't know what you don't know, and you don't know it.
I don't get angry with customers that give us good feedback, indeed we have implemented many changes as requested by people from here. I do get annoyed, not angry, at people that make broad statements such as we need better QA staff based on their Zero years Console QA experience and their assumptions of what the job entails and its constraints.
It is safer to assume that the QA staff shipping any console game are not idiots and that there must be some constraints, issues, or unknowns at play.
Delete the logo data and you will be fine. The next patch will fix the vast, vast majority of issues.
Thanks for supporting us, I do appreciate it, we will learn from any mistakes that have been made.
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