Funny, I GOT paid to test it (Destiny)

by Earendil, Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 13:54 (3838 days ago) @ Schedonnardus

Jokes aside, I'm still not sure I understand your point. From where I'm standing:

1. Normal mode wasn't "beta" quality, even if there were bugs. And most of the bugs involved cheesing, not detrimental defects that prevented a player from accomplishing a given goal.

2. The alternative to any pre-release testing is to simply not play. This is where I would consider myself "paid", because I was able to play and enjoy software that you would call "beta".

It seems you would have preferred that Bungie release Normal and Hard mode together, which would mean that all this time no one would have been playing the raid. It also likely means that more internal testing would have been required, since a community of millions of players is more likely to find defects than a team of a hundred (or however many Bungie has). So you'd really rather the raid was released weeks/months from now so that you didn't "have to pay" to play? This is where I don't understand.