They also really, really telegraph where you should go first. I appreciate them opening things up, but when they go out of their way to make the characters point you in the linear direction, it defeats the point, especially if you can’t even do anything on that planet anyway. 

Any of the above. Internal QA at EA might have found it, and if the user path is insignificant enough it can get marked known shippable. It certainly got past Sony and Microsoft unnoticed. But even big games can release with game stopping bugs. Neverwinter Nights 2 comes to mind as a big offender.

These aren’t bugs, they’re “Surprise Mechanics”

As a former CQA\FQA for THQ (pre-Nordic), I can tell you with 150% certainty that it was caught during testing, but likely got relegated to the NPF (No Plans To Fix) bug pile as they raced to get the game through compliance testing for the major platforms in time for a Holiday\Pre-Star Wars movie release.

Exactly, at the very least Respawn can add in the option to fast travel back to your ship. I feel they’re reason for omitting fast travel is BS. Tomb Raider is all about traversal through the various areas of the game yet it still has fast travel.

It’s weird that Dathomir shows up right away as a planet to travel to when there’s no reason to go there at the start of the game. 

I don’t think you understand what testers do, they specifically have to test circumstances so players can’t break the game.

I am just going to say it. I love the game but alot of this could be fixed with a fast travel option.

just saying ;)

As someone who did QA testing on a AAA title like a decade ago? A few possibilities:

So what you’re saying is the game has some replayability to it.

Good on you for the solidarity kotaku has shown today. I’m sorry you’re all going through this. We’re with you.

As someone who was once part of a similar insurrection against arrogant, incompetent, and condescending management, I want to applaud all of y’all for today’s showing. I’m sure you’re simultaneously enjoying the fun of mutiny while also understanding the risk. Please also know how much it means to us here in the feebl…

Oh my goodness, no. I get so much personal enjoyment out of character-tweaking (Behave) that I can spend at least an hour or more creating a new one every time there’s a new game, or when I go back to an old favourite.

If I don’t know exactly what something does during a game, it’s something I can find out. If…

You feed a gremlin after midnight and all anyone cares about is the ensuing murder and mayhem. Nobody remembers that they used to cute and cuddly.

I never understood why black conservatives/conservatives  always bring up that Republicans freed the slaves, so the fuck what? That is like saying Darth Vader did some good things in his past, yeah when he was Anakin Skywalker, not now now when he is half man/half cyborg blowing up planets.

I think he’s trying to say that the information was so inaccurate that it was just made up, which, uh, hm, thanks for the window into your process. 

Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all. In addition, all second hand information that proved to be so inaccurate that there may not have even been somebody else, a leaker or spy, feeding it to him or her? A partisan operative?

Yes, boiled all the way down, Trump is the id of the America that is not only tired of being dragged into the 21st century but wants to told the 21st century is actually an Illuminati plot.

I find myself thinking that President Trump is not merely one of the worst people his generation produced, but the embodiment of the collective id of that generation. Thin-skinned, venal, looking for someone else to blame and so very, very scared of changes.

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