¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'll be honest, that's on the developer's shoulder in my opinion. The game booted but then a certain condition made it crash...
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Axiom Verge on EGS crashes 100 percent on an area because of a missing sound effect (Update: Fixed)
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Valve does check games though. Also, this was supposed to be a big selling point of the Epic store. See below.
If epic missed an issue as small and obvious as this. It brings into question how much they're actually testing, after touting it as one of their big features setting it apart.
thank god the epic store is testing these games so throughly and it's so great that they have avenues for customers to communicate directly to the developer
I'm assuming this must be some sort of automated test to determine if the program boots and doesn't crash for x minutes.
Because if it's not automated and they actually have people looking at games, then they've got a lot of things to explain considering how many homophobic and racist games have made it through.
I did not Tim Sweeney made a big deal about it, that does change things a little.
Not a good look for a small curated store that has touted its dedication to QA previously.
Epic made a big deal about how good their curation is and how they would test the games tho
Edit: Misread. Still funny.
Also it seems he is the only tester? EGS should scale up lol.
In my experience, Valve ensures that games will run. I don't see any indication that they play games to completion. Which sounds similar to what happened here with EGS, but people should have higher expectations than that of EGS given that they put a lot of weight into their "curated" selection.
i'm inclined to believe Galyonkin, he probably just turned it on and gave it a quick spin to see if loaded and such. QA is not his job after all.
it's just amazing that this happened in the first place, players were only minorly inconvenienced and the bug was fixed by Tom Happ within a day.
That guy is so full of shit...
And not anyone else from Epic either it seems.
I haven't played Axiom Verge, but looking at youtube playthroughs the mentioned area (Zi) you reach within your first hour?
Can´t afford proper QA with 12%.
Can´t afford to pay processing fees with 12%.
Hmmmmmmmmm, maybe, just maybeee...... nah 30% Valve evil.
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Seriously, no wonder he thinks that his idea of "small dedicated curation team" will work when they open the floodgates for self-publishing, because in his mind you can check the quality of the game by playing it less than an hour.
It's already a pain for modders with just GOG and Steam. Some games on one platform have older patches that make certain mods incompatible.
That then begs the question of what level of QA we're to expect from EGS itself. This is especially important nowadays when GaaS are more popular than ever. Are they going to QA every patch and feature update to The Division 2?
Oh it absolutely is going to get worse regardless of what position anyone takes regarding these PC ecosystems, especially since anyone discussing anything is seemingly a fanboy, even if they don't use the any of them. It's forum logic I suppose
I think at one point Galyokin's argument was wanting more direct communication between dev and customer vs toxic forums that devs don't have time to support. That argument falls apart, because the hope there is to hide any issues. It doesn't improve the quality of feedback on issues or the toxic nature of those more anger prone gamers
Apparently it's fanboyism! Or it's legitimately funny that we are at this point already.
I'd be curious to know each ecosystems actual process for QC of games (if any). With Steam, it seems they relatively recently started doing some pretty heavy feedback for some games in a lot of detail. Prior to that, I hadn't heard anything about actual process beyond "check it runs and isn't malicious", which isn't very thorough
What does " robocopy /XF "steam"* " mean?
Also how far in the the game do you need to be to get to that area in the game? It's possible that Sergey stopped before that and just wanted to make sure that the game would even run.
Well at the very least this shows that updates can get pushed very fast but does bring the question of where you would go to find answers to problems like this since not everyone uses Twitter. On Steam at least there is a section where devs can put updates and let people know about issues and what not
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Yeah, I think it's fair to assume Valve is more thorough in its pre-release checks than it previously was now that developers are required to summarise the nature of the content in their games.
One of the best stuff in the genre. Critically underrated gem imo.
if there are only seven why wouldn't you just do it manually anyway
That's a pretty hilarious bug. I'm sure Epic will be more verbose in the files they exclude from now on.
this seems like the store that touted how great their curation standards are and that assures that they test games beforehand are full of shit, as expected.
Wtf, is Sergey the only QA guy they have? Why is he personally apologizing?!
even if the developer made a mistake is epic not at fault because their "curation" was promised to prevent things like this
I like how this thread is split between "Lazy Devs!" and "I've been there, mate" depending on (presumably) whether you work in the IT industry or not.
it was an honest mistake, albeit a daft one. Why wasn't it caught by this developer-centric, curated platform which promised thorough QA though? And why were people having to post and get fixes on Steam forums?
Silly mistake, was fixed within a day. No doubt their QA has room to grow and improve.
Just like you're here to save the day for Steam? The hate you have for Epic makes me laugh.
Just like you're here to save the day for Steam? The hate you have for Epic makes me laugh.