Should devs tell people about launch bugs in advance? “It’s an interesting problem” says Starfield and Skyrim designer

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Zippy Bot · 2 months ago

Should devs tell people about launch bugs in advance? “It’s an interesting problem” says Starfield and Skyrim designer

@JoeKrogan · edit-2 2 months ago

No fix the known bugs and then release. Release when its ready. Also its not devs hiding the bugs its the management and publishers promising and forcing devs to meet these arbitrary deadlines.

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

If there are non-breaking bugs I’m OK with that listed in release notes, but other than that I completely agree with you. Too often there are major issues at release, especially with Bethesda.

@glimse · 2 months ago

Just delay the release and finish the game. I’m not paying to be a beta tester. I want the game-breaking AND immersion-breaking AND fps-reducing bugs fixed before launch. Games are expensive and while I don’t think that’s a bad thing, there’s still a bar I expect it to pass before it feels like a good value.