The Role of QA In Games Development - The Good and The Bad!

[@BeyondThe_Pixels]

Love these videos Harvey!! they are so candid yet professional with so much experience from youe career! keep rocking man!

[@harveynewman]

Thanks a million for the support Haz! Highly appreciated brother!

[@onedudecomics]

Great vid! I had 2 little questions and I would love to hear your thoughts: 1. Can Q/A testers talk about how good a game is? 2. Why are so many games published in a buggy, messy state nowadays? Thanks in advance, Harvey!

[@harveynewman]

Great questions dude! 1 - Not really are as they are normally under very strict NDA's 2 - Great question, my personal opinion is that now that all games can have updates after release there's less emphasis in getting a game 100% bug free. When I started and games where printed in discs, if the bug was there it would be there forever and that was the stuff of nightmares for developers. Nowadays you can send an update and voila your game is better now. Thanks a million for watching and support!

[@onedudecomics]

@@harveynewman Thanks a lot! Though a quick thing: when I meant "talk" i meant to the other departments and stuff. Did you ever give feedback about a how fun a game is?

[@harveynewman]

Ah it can go both ways really....in the games studios where QA is embedded, treated as equals there's a good feedback loop between QA and each department, however there's studios where they want QA to just find bugs and not feedback on the game.

[@onedudecomics]

Woah....interesting... I never knew that it made a difference (embedded or not). Super helpful. Thanks