Plight of the Beta-tester: Octopus or Ostrich?

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Are PC games released without game-breaking bugs?

Yes. All my PC games work vipolifically after purchase.
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Plight of the Beta-tester: Octopus or Ostrich?

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Just as Horton the Elephant protected creatures that lived on a microscopic dust particle, it’s time to protect PC games. The very same games that occupy an ever-shrinking shelf space.

An elephant has big ears to hear the call for innovation and quality, but an Octopus is not an elephant. Nor is it an ostrich. Then why do Octopuses continue to bury their heads in the sand?

How then can these marine dwellers hear the plight of PC games? The pithy answer is they can’t, but instead they need a land creature with big ears. Lorax, a noble creature that saved the Truffula trees. The very same trees, that when harvested, produce truffle chocolates.

The issue is at hand. Have you, as a PC game consumer, been repeatedly nominated beta-tester of bug-filled gaming? Following the flobbergobber in previews, were you dealt broken promises and technogibberlists?

Some have answered: it's all Supply & Demand. :shock: Rubbish to that. Rubbish to that.
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Post by Lee »

I didn't exactly follow all of that. For the question at hand, I think we all have played a game we were clearly paying to beta test. But I would say the vast majority of games I buy are very playable, but a patch or two won't hurt.

I am not voting because the answers in the poll are too extreme, there is an in between ground in there.
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Lee wrote:I didn't exactly follow all of that. For the question at hand, I think we all have played a game we were clearly paying to beta test. But I would say the vast majority of games I buy are very playable, but a patch or two won't hurt.

I am not voting because the answers in the poll are too extreme, there is an in between ground in there.
You're assuming that this is a serious question. Lorax's posts are the forum equivalent of speaking to hear one's own voice.
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Re: Plight of the Beta-tester: Octopus or Ostrich?

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lorax wrote: Lorax, a noble creature that saved the Truffula trees.
No it didn't. You're a liar. Why must you lie all the time?
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Post by Exodor »

This thread makes me head hurt.

Voted anyway. :P
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Re: Plight of the Beta-tester: Octopus or Ostrich?

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killbot737 wrote:
lorax wrote: Lorax, a noble creature that saved the Truffula trees.
No it didn't. You're a liar. Why must you lie all the time?
Well it tried,
so I wouldn't say Lorax lied.
Just find the Truffula Seed,
and do a good deed,
and the trees will reach to the sky.

But then one dawn,
I conferred with a tired Swomee-Swan,
and after a nap,
he said that stuff about Truffula trees producing truffle chocolates,
is a bunch of crap.
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Post by Rincewind »

Would you please just ask your questions in a more easily understandible and intelligible manner?
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The plight of the Octopi is the preponderance of loraxian jabberwocky. The annealed whole of the cephalopod ranks is being interminably corroded by an incursion of imprudently inane ideations with violent vacuity. To cogitate the derisory disgorged by the promulgator is to glom the transcendental abyss.
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The Preacher wrote:The plight of the Octopi is the preponderance of loraxian jabberwocky. The annealed whole of the cephalopod ranks is being interminably corroded by an incursion of imprudently inane ideations with violent vacuity. To cogitate the derisory disgorged by the promulgator is to glom the transcendental abyss.
Yeah, but it gives us a chance to pad. Or practice alliteration.

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Post by Kraken »

I didn't vote. I never buy any game until I've read enough player feedback to be confident in its playability. I don't wait for bargain bin prices, but I do wait until the game has a clean bill of health. First-day buyers ought to know by now that they're taking a risk.
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Rincewind wrote:Would you please just ask your questions in a more easily understandible and intelligible manner?
I'm assuming, that to him, his questions are intelligible. For me, they read like those weird spam emails.
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An Ode to a Confused Octopus

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killbot737 wrote:
lorax wrote:Lorax, a noble creature that saved the Truffula trees.
No it didn't....
:shock:

I tried and I tried,
But the octopuses did hide,
Heads in the sands,
You’d figure better with 8 hands.

Truffle chocolates I did harvest,
Those candies are the smartest,
Octopuses, deniers, untruthers banded,
I ask you, are you left-handed?

Rehashes, sequels, more of the same,
You'd all admit this is such a shame.
We need more of the new,
Ask Horton, who heard the Who.

Who you say - who is the who?
Creatures lived on the dust particle, that is who.
Horton had big ears he could hear them too,
I can repeat this a few times, how about two?

How about two?
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Post by JayG »

Little Raven wrote:Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
That made no sense in the film. Was Obi Wan saying he was a Sith? Surely that statement was an absolute.
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