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[Shaki12345]

Obviously they are on strike so they can watch the Nintendo Direct and Nintendo Treehouse streams.

 

[Mattyp]

See how they refrain from saying they're being paid the 'minimal wage' but being paid 'minimal wage(S) for the cities we have to live in' is a very very big difference, just because Microsoft is a trillion dollar company does not mean people doing quality control for Bethesda deserve the same as those doing Azure being employed directly by Microsoft let alone they're contractors.

Would love to see the paid wage they're receiving for bug testing.

Sack the lot and hire autistic gamers from Neogaf for years of free gamepass and some dominos vouchers with some steam cards thrown in and you'll probably find more bugs.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

That is not exactly correct. Bad games can slow down adoption, limit word of mouth, finally delay developing new features and content till the base game is patched up to standard. All these things are different to quantify, but the same can be said for a lot of marketing budgets being spend.
You can even make a case that experienced QA dept. will speed up the development during the final phases - I always remember the article talking how South Korea is recognized as the second-fastest country globally in constructing nuclear plants, averaging just 56 months per plant, compared to the global average of 190 months. That has been attributed to a core construction team working together for years or even decades.

And yet Bugthesda is notorious for releasing buggy, glitchy, and downright broken games.

I am not saying that a close knit team doesn't enhance the quality and testing a product. I'm well aware that a bad game release can have long term negative impact on a series or brand. I am saying that Microsoft doesn't give a shit. They're a mega corporation who ultimately has a poor track record in the gaming space, all things considered. Even if the team says the game needs time, Microsoft can very much turn around and push it out anyway. They gobbled up all of those studios and have nothing to show for it. I expect nothing from big corpo anymore. I don't trust any of them to offer excellence and quality in their products and support, nor do I trust them to do right by their employees.

 

[Fake]

QA? My ass.