Their priority is to ship as soon as they can and fix bugs after the fact.

On Aug 17, 2012, at 20:03, Jason <pctool...@gmail.com> wrote:

If I, in my QA job, failed as much as this........I'd be fired.  I
certainly appreciate the updates, but fucking hell......there's not enough
testing and this is bullshit

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Todd Pettit <pettit.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So ruining your companies reputation every 2 or 3 weeks is preferable?
>
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> It would go against their policy to hire QA's.
>
> - They would have to have a "boss" when they are supposed to have a
> bossless company.
> - They only hire the "best" and QA isn't a very difficult job. Anyone
> that is considered good wouldn't be stuck doing QA.
> - It would bring their money per employee down.
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/15/valve-makes-more-money-per-employee-than-google-or-apple/
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Brian Simon <bluebriansi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is why they need a Quality Assurance team. Exactly for things like
> > this, and for every other one of there numerous broken updates. Any
> decent
> > QA team would catch these things easily.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:52 PM, wickedplayer494 .
> > <wickedplayer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I imagine this is quite nightmarish for Valve.
> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Todd Pettit <pettit.t...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The cure has been far worse than the affliction. :)
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