Timeline for In an interview with a small video game company, should I comment about bugs I noticed in their game?
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| Aug 7, 2020 at 13:47 | comment | added | ffff | Good point. It is not for a QA job, but a developer one. I guess it's best after all to slow down on those comments like you say. I didn't get the chance to find easter eggs, that could have been a golden point. Thanks! | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 19:10 | history | edited | DongKy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
+ Mention found eastereggs
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| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:14 | comment | added | Captain Man | re"Developers always have outstanding bugs they haven’t gotten around to yet" -- A lot of people forget that in the tech debt metaphor, some level of debt is okay. The same way you go into debt to buy a house and pay it off, you may have to take on tech debt to get out a playable beta. I realize that UI issues are not "tech debt" but I think the same idea applies here. Also, especially since this is merely a beta, getting something playable to test the more subjective elements like gameplay balance is a much more immediate concern than some names being unreadable on some backgrounds. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 13:19 | comment | added | alephzero | I am a beta tester for a large company, and (private) beta versions often come with comments like "Feature XYZ is incomplete, so we do not want you to comment on it in this version." But of course developers and internal QA testers do sometimes miss "the blindingly obvious" simply because while focused on testing low level features, they carefully checked 1+1=2 and 2+3=5, but never tried 2+5 and discovered the program thought it was -93, not 7! | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 8:04 | comment | added | Chronocidal | Especially with something basic like the text being plain black; they might be waiting on the art department to deliver the backing nameplate, or the custom black-with-white-outline font for them to plug in and fix the issue, and are just using a stock-font (e.g. Arial) without a background as a placeholder. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 4:04 | history | answered | DongKy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |