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3 years 45 weeks ago	"not gonna happen"	Oh, believe me, I sympathize. I hope my comment didn't come off as a shot at you. Video game testers have the single most thankless job in the industry. My comment was more about the developer/publisher problem that I don't think gets anywhere near enough discussio. Testers are an easy scapegoat when a game is released with problems, but I would wager that they are *very* rarely the reason a game goes out with crushing bugs/problems in it.
3 years 45 weeks ago	Game Testing	Game testers have a thankless job, no doubt and I think its almost always a mistake to assume that a game's faults lie at the feet of the people who do QA testing on it. The problem, in my limited experience, with buggy titles or bugs that repeat year after year (mostly sports games) isn't even the developer, rather most often it's the publisher. There are exceptions, but I think, most of the time, developers want to do a lot of things in terms of adding features or fixing bugs that publishers prevent them from spending time/money on because they don't think it'll have the least bit of impact on game sales. With NCAA, though, I do think Tiburon has to shoulder some blame for the year to year stuff. I get that some problems (like the players running their routes clear out of bounds) aren't easy to fix, but they're supposed to be professional game developers. If it were easy to address, they could hire me to do it. So, I don't want to hear that fixing route running issues or DB AI issues or kick coverage problems is hard. Of course it's hard. Tiburon is supposed to be a professional outfit and they've had years on the current-gen consoles (360/PS3) to fix some of this stuff and they still haven't. Now, it's their choice not to devote the necessary time to it. But if they're not going to be bothered, then don't expect me to fork over $60 for the game every year. ---Todd
3 years 45 weeks ago	Thanks!	Hey, Brian. As Bill's co-blogger on The Nut and Feisty Weasel I just wanted to thank you for the plug. I'm glad to see you're enjoying the impressions Bill has been putting up. He may be a Buckeye (we can't all be perfect), but he knows his sh#@ when it comes to the EA NCAA franchise. Hopefully he'll have a good set of slider settings for the game going soon after it comes out. That said, I am pissed at him because he got an early copy of the game and I didn't. :) I love the site re-design, by the way! ---Todd
3 years 45 weeks ago	Testing NCAA with OSU	In Bill's defense (as his Feisty Weasel co-blogger, I'm obligated) he's an OSU guy and he's posting impressions on a personal blog and not as a professional website review. He's gonna play where he's gonna have the most fun. Of course he's going to use the Buckeyes first. That said, if you go to and read the blog you'll see that he's also done some testing with smaller schools and has just launched a Ball State dynasty to look deeper at how the game plays out when not using a 5-star school. ---Todd