BioWare spent more than 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC: 'Getting the PC experience just right was crucial to us'

scrion , 11 hours ago

At 7h / day of just testing, 200k hours amount to approximately 110 years, given 260 working days per year.

Veilguard has been in development for around 9 years, so thats about 12 “years of testing per year”, so pretty much at least 12 people doing nothing else but testing (this assumes sane working conditions - hi EA!)

Given how long the game has been in development, what does that number even mean? How much of the stuff they wrote 9 years ago is still in place, given that players would expect the technological advancements available since 2015.

Also, it’s supposed to be released end of October, I believe? Or has it been postponed even further (again)? Anyway, why would they claim something like that before release? That will probably backfire.

Bimfred , 1 hour ago

A lot of that time, if not the vast majority, is likely performance testing. That’s trivial to automate and can be run across 100+ systems simultaneously.

overload , 58 minutes ago

Yeah not 200k actual man-hours.

100 , 9 hours ago

translation: we did test it, but we didnt listen to any feedback after we decided to add mouse acceleration and combine unrelated keybinds

halcyoncmdr , 12 hours ago

I’ll believe it when I see it. These claims always end up being full of shit somehow. 190,000 of those hours will have been the tutorial area or some shit.