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I didn't wan't to add to an already cluttered forum - So I ask you here.

Just how many patches exactly do you feel this game will have to go through to be deemed playable?

Will we have to wait week-in-week-out for patch after patch? Or do you think the one patch could settle it? It's making me wonder just how long we are going to have to wait in order to flatten out all of the bugs within the game. I feel two could do it, but I've no idea. One for major, one for minor.

That’s true, but the publisher is in charge of the quality assurance (with an internal or external QA team), so you have blame them. So maybe the QA didn’t do their jobs, or this game beta was so unplayable that they achieved at least the current state or the producers were aware of the problems and decide to solve these issues with patches. I guess their marketing department had a also a certain role to stick with the planned release date. Whatever it was, it doesn’t look good for neither of them.

Obsidian is a decent company with, imho, a horrible horrible programming department. Every game engine (Odyssey, Auroura, Unreal and now Gambyro) they got their hands on turned pretty much into a buggy bloated mess. These engines have already their problems in the first place, but it seems once they fiddle with it at Obsidian it reaches a new low or high however you like to see it. Even if Obsidian may have their own little QA team, it seems they test only the changes in the current milestone and never the game as a whole.