Haha @astridentanja you did make me smile with that post!
I think they do play, even if it's not to the extent most simmers do. It's entirely possible the team doesn't have ex very example of play style in the office-that may be why some seem cut from this version. It's hard to see the wood for the trees when you work hard on something. You can get tunnel vision. It's not a criticism-it's a naturally occurring situation. That's why it helps to have advisors who fall into another style. Because they can communicate effectively what draws them and keeps them with the sims.
Haha @astridentanja you did make me smile with that post!
I think they do play, even if it's not to the extent most simmers do. It's entirely possible the team doesn't have ex very example of play style in the office-that may be why some seem cut from this version. It's hard to see the wood for the trees when you work hard on something. You can get tunnel vision. It's not a criticism-it's a naturally occurring situation. That's why it helps to have advisors who fall into another style. Because they can communicate effectively what draws them and keeps them with the sims.
I agree. No, that's no criticism, because I think it works like that in any line of business. The tunnel vision thing
I think they do, but in a limited fashion. It's hard to enjoy something though, when you're looking for bugs.
I don't know how looking for bugs works, it takes a while before you come across one as a player.
I never understood the - never fixed - cave bug in IP. That one is so obvious, how did they miss that..?!
- Real testing should be done by real players I think. People who know what the game is about, trying it out at home in their own time and environment (not focussed on 'does it work does it work' but just playing). But maybe that's not possible.
They play for testing purposes only and even that is rushed with cheats. Other than that there is no time for playing. I don't blame them on that. I am a developer myself and the least we have is time.
Also you should not confuse developers with managers! Developers have no say what we get. They make suggestions but the only things they can DECIDE is how a game ticks under the hood. Anything else is decided by the management.
I like what you said the other day about how you could no longer just play a game but you saw the ins and outs of stuff (forgive my noob wording, lol) where as someone like me sees the magic of games (to me) and I don't see a set of code to do this or that like a programmer would view a game if they played it. This made me realize if they 'do' play the game then they aren't looking, nor playing like we would. Those of us who are not wise to this what made the Sim do that, so this would trigger that sort of thing. (You explained it much better...obviously)
I can not imagine playing games then not really playing but just seeing triggers etc. That would really remove the magic for me and glad I don't really know all that much of why the Sim did this or that, So, your thoughts the other day made me realize yes, that must be how it would be for programmers if they do play the games. And to me that wouldn't be any fun at all. So, I don't blame them if they really don't play after one is finished and or at least packaged and ready to sell.
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I think they do play, even if it's not to the extent most simmers do. It's entirely possible the team doesn't have ex very example of play style in the office-that may be why some seem cut from this version. It's hard to see the wood for the trees when you work hard on something. You can get tunnel vision. It's not a criticism-it's a naturally occurring situation. That's why it helps to have advisors who fall into another style. Because they can communicate effectively what draws them and keeps them with the sims.
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I never understood the - never fixed - cave bug in IP. That one is so obvious, how did they miss that..?!
- Real testing should be done by real players I think. People who know what the game is about, trying it out at home in their own time and environment (not focussed on 'does it work does it work' but just playing). But maybe that's not possible.
I like what you said the other day about how you could no longer just play a game but you saw the ins and outs of stuff (forgive my noob wording, lol) where as someone like me sees the magic of games (to me) and I don't see a set of code to do this or that like a programmer would view a game if they played it. This made me realize if they 'do' play the game then they aren't looking, nor playing like we would. Those of us who are not wise to this what made the Sim do that, so this would trigger that sort of thing. (You explained it much better...obviously)
I can not imagine playing games then not really playing but just seeing triggers etc. That would really remove the magic for me and glad I don't really know all that much of why the Sim did this or that,
Edit: Oh and they probably do play it.
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