It has long been my opinion as someone that does software testing and makes a very good living at it that something is really wrong with that same process in this franchise. Not just Horizon but Motorsport too. It is clear as day to me as a professional in this field that the play testing lacked actual throughput and cycles.
For this, you draw my ire. This is absolutely unacceptable… Not the mistakes, not the bugs - but not paying your employees and contractors a living wage. I wanted to maybe think that this wasn’t actually the case, but - now I know why the Q/A in these games seem to have missed the mark so badly.
You get what you pay for is a common idiom I see C-level suits toss around all the time. Well guys, you got what you paid for, that much is clear. It makes me sad to think I wanted to bring my talents and skills to do something like this for these games because I enjoy them so much and then to see the popularity of this franchise and then to learn how you treat the people responsible for making sure it meets not only your vision but ours.
Shame on you.
Be better.
Do better.