Should all games need to have mandatory QA testing before release?

[Fappy]

... and people need to demand that reviewers mention bugs and only trust reviewers (professional or not) who do mention bugs consistently.

This is actually a huge issue with the advent of game content youtubers. Since coverage of new games is shifting more towards popular youtube channels, a lot of publishers have been paying for sponsored content disguised as the channel's genuine content. In the case of Shadow of Mordor for example, youtubers were only given authorization to play and upload videos of the game before release so long as they followed a long list of stipulations, which included the omission of any and all bugs. That's right, if they encountered a bug it had to be edited out of the video and they couldn't mention it.

That's shady fucking shit and grounds for false advertising, imo.

 

[BeerTent]

Let the market take care of it.

If gamers continue to buy broken products, then we simply deserve this shit, but if gamers start avoiding the worst offenders and work up from there, then game quality will improve.

It's not my fault that the mainstream is garbage that eats up everything that is popular, I tell them again and again to not do it but they won't listen.

... and people need to demand that reviewers mention bugs and only trust reviewers (professional or not) who do mention bugs consistently.

This is actually a huge issue with the advent of game content youtubers. Since coverage of new games is shifting more towards popular youtube channels, a lot of publishers have been paying for sponsored content disguised as the channel's genuine content. In the case of Shadow of Mordor for example, youtubers were only given authorization to play and upload videos of the game before release so long as they followed a long list of stipulations, which included the omission of any and all bugs. That's right, if they encountered a bug it had to be edited out of the video and they couldn't mention it.

That's shady fucking shit and grounds for false advertising, imo.

I think this is the problem here...

As consumers, we've all turned around and said, "Hey... This is okay." And now we have the AAA industry. Nobody's holding anybody accountable. Spineless consumers are to blame.