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[digitalempire]

I would think the Quality Assurance team is like... The one group of people you wanna hear from, regardless of what level they are.

[Shiirow]

"I have a dream that I will be judged not by the color of my badge but by the content of my argument."

[DankSwegSkuxxXhayel]

"hey that whole department is dedicated to finding bugs and making our game better"

"Fuck those guys, I don't wanna hear it"

[veggiea]

Software developer here. A really good QA is worth their weight in gold. They don't just understand the product and where it might break, they are a business expert as well, understanding the needs of the customers in ways that devs - and hell, even product - often do not. They don't just write bugs against the spec, they write bugs against the way their product should work.

[grimm]

Okay I have a story about this type of behavior.

I work at a hospital as a CNA. Our badges are purple, I had a doctor come into my patients room as I was cleaning it up while the patient was in the bathroom. They asked me how the patient was and I started talking to them and as soon as she looked at my badge just walked away before letting me finish. They asked the primary nurse the same question which they had no idea because they have been busy with their other 4 patients. This issue is common in so many different fields of work it’s laughable.

[enterusernamehere]

"Yeah, I judge people on color"
"What?"

[MEAREMLG]

it's great to hear that there was class wars between the poo badges and the pee badges

[elijahsly]

Leaving someone on read IN REAL LIFE is behavior I just can't understand.

[BillLambert]

QA is a thing that is so rarely appreciated, because it can be hard to hear someone tear your work to shreds, but once you take ego out of the equation, QA can quickly become your superweapon.

[zabuzafan]

Sadly experienced this myself. I was a third party QA for a company. They had their own internal QA team that had a report code that started with "T" and us 3rd party had a report code that started with "T." I was talking to one of the devs once about the game and he showed me how they filtered their reports. . . Any report code starting with a "T" was automatically trashed. It wasn't the offical, but ti's what they all did. When the higher ups finally figured this out, they assigned all QA, internal and not, numerics with no indicators cause they found out that their devs were wasting their QA funds by dismissing all 3rd party QA team feedback and reports.

[irollerblade]

"The way a man treats his inferiors is the best indication of his character." - Charles Bayard Mitchell

[acetrigger]

The fact that anyone inside of a Professional Development Studio would IGNORE a Q&A Staff is just... W O W.

[austint]

I like how everyone was wondering who he was and why he was in our feed, now his bio is in his shorts

[Pandum]

10 years ago I was in QA - having a designer tell me to my face that he didn't respect my opinions because I was in QA is what showed me exactly what kind of designer I was NOT going to be. To this day I go out of my way to make QA that reach out to me feel heard. They spend so much time yelling into the void. Those testers have often played your game more than you have. It gives them a unique, and monstrously powerful perspective.

[cogspace]

As a dev who started in QA, I always try to go out of my way to make sure QA gets the respect they deserve. That shit is not easy and their contributions to the final product are immense.

[Sam-pvhz]

Crazy how fast humans latch onto perceived power and status, with such speed and arrogance.

[kaelhate]

Spent 11years in QA. Development and Management thought that anything you said or raised was a personal insult and expected you to tell them everything was perfect. I always sighed so hard when I was asked for all the issues we were unaware of.

[Rorschachqp]

They explain this in Sun Tzu's Art Of War. The peon soldiers on the front line have the best picture of the situation so you should never disregard them just as you should never plan with only information in a closed room far away from the actual situation.

[Gaulwa]

I'm a lead designer and I have never understood this behaviour. QA/Testeur are often the only people in the company truly playing the game on a daily basis. They can acurately point out all the game's issues for me to look it. Not just bugs, but quality of life, balancing and design choices. QA are precious people to me.

[adamlastname]

I love that he described the Army. They look at your rank to decide how to treat you before you speak.