DICE: “All Games Ship With Small Bugs”

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