Yeah, they certainly couldn't run every part of every game, it'd have to work like a ratings board where the devs submit whatever footage it is they're not certain about. Which, of course, puts it back on the devs.
Exactly. That's why I said it likely isn't part of cert. If it was, it would have failed.
It is, but also gamers are stupid and have for decades posted the Nintendo Seal of Quality because they're too dumb to understand.
It is. However, people need reminding because there is a lot of blame being thrown around.
A piece of software can go through stringent QA (and certification or whatever) and once it reaches a customer, they do certain things in certain ways that no one on the testing team would have even thought of and find bugs, or bricking in this case. QA is hard because it's impossible to replicate all the different ways a customer will interact with a certain piece of software.
By people that pay attempt to how game dev works, but most people don't.
QA can only do their jobs. Having been in QA for various things you report, make it as detailed as possible and give them scope of a fix or feedback for improvement if you are able to, and then move on to the next thing.
It's very hard to cert this because it's not easily quantifiable what counts as an epilepsy trigger. I don't think CDPR even realized this before people started complaining.
As someone who worked QA in the past, I bet a lot of these issues *were* found. QA has no control over whether these issues are fixed, which they may not be for a variety of reasons.
No, most likely that just wasn't caught in cert.
A million eyes will see more in an hour than 10 in a year is what I always tell my team.
From years watching matt mcmuscles, Liam and woolievs, they often discover and do report these bugs, devs quite often can and do ignore them however lol
Ive seen games ship with progression blockers, and the hope is that no one encounters it while they work on a patch.
No, the easiest way to remember it is that cert only cares about the system - not the player. If something is going to mess with the OS, it's failing. If it's going to mess with players...that's not cert's concern.
Not at all.
It always, always frustrates me when I see discussions about bugs and the first thing ppl online who -- bless their hearts -- just don't know any better, blame QA for not doing their job.
Lol. When I worked as QA for EA (outsourced) we were told to just report the bugs and suggest NOTHING about the game.
