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BioWare spent more than 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC: 'Getting the PC experience just right was crucial to us' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] scrion 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At 7h / day of just testing, 200k hours amount to approximately 110 years, given 260 working days per year.

Veilguard has been in development for around 9 years, so thats about 12 "years of testing per year", so pretty much at least 12 people doing nothing else but testing (this assumes sane working conditions - hi EA!)

Given how long the game has been in development, what does that number even mean? How much of the stuff they wrote 9 years ago is still in place, given that players would expect the technological advancements available since 2015.

Also, it's supposed to be released end of October, I believe? Or has it been postponed even further (again)? Anyway, why would they claim something like that before release? That will probably backfire.

[–] Bimfred 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A lot of that time, if not the vast majority, is likely performance testing. That's trivial to automate and can be run across 100+ systems simultaneously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah not 200k actual man-hours.

[–] scrion 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the implication. Unfortunately, that is also misleading people into believing they might get a well-tested, nearly bug free game.

[–] Bimfred 1 points 3 months ago

Yep. And if they fail to deliver on the lofty expectations they've created here, the backlash is going to be epic. I don't want to root for their downfall, but.... Imma stock up on popcorn.