In a rather candid interview executive producer of Battlefield 3 Patrick Bach has said that developers ignore certain bugs in games.
Just fixing bugs doesn’t make a great game. All games ship with small bugs that developers more or less deliberately have chosen to ignore. The big question is which bugs you choose to fix.
Whilst the news that games ship with bugs is not a surprise, the fact that developers ‘deliberately ignore’ them is.
Day one patches are the rule rather than the exception these days leading many to ask why developers do not delay the game by a few weeks and fix all the problems before the game ships.
Battlefield 3 hits the shelves on October 25th and DICE are still hard at work tweaking the final product, stating that they ‘couldn’t release the game today.’
Source: Wall Street Journal
hol
Not suprised nor all that bothered really? I seem to remember, can’t remember the exact games, where a small bug/glitch has added to the game!
But everything comes down to cost & this is one I guess?
hol
Ah forgot a point ;)
How many million lines of code in a game these days? Would you want to check them? I know I wouldn’t!
R4U Eldave0
Confirms my opinion that giving developers the ability to fix their games after release via patching has made them negligent and not deserving of my money.
minerwilly
Absolutely loving it , it started great and as i find my feet and rank up (got de-fibs just before) im getting more and more into it , this game has gone from being my definite GOTY into my favourite PS3 game ever (since BFBC2)
Awayze
I have to say this but Battlefield 3 sucks especially the 30fps, when you pan its soo slow and its as though pixels are not keeping up with the movements.
No wonder COD is better, its soo much smoother.
stonyk
How can they rave about how great they are yet can’t make a game that takes you passed the start screen? Do they not test? I know they say all games ship with bugs but surely “press start to continue” is test number 1! I give up on BF3 even if it is a nice looking frozen menu screen.
Kennykazey
http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/Nontoxic_Bug_Repellent.jpg
Michael
I suggest that it’s likely in many cases that the end user won’t notice the bugs.
Origami Killer
They do have to meet a deadline and it is impossible to release a game without bugs. Imagine the mocking from Call of Duty fans if BF3 got delayed.
bmg_123
Well, I wouldn’t go and see a film with people falling through the floor, the film reel cutting out every few seconds and the soldiers forgetting how to aim down the sights. Hey Dice?
(I know, bad analogy)