Earlier this week, the YouTube channel Upper Echelon Gamers posted a video in which a whistleblower claimed that the bugs in Cyberpunk 2077 were the result of various activities at Quantic Labs, the studio hired by CD Projekt Red to control the quality of your role play. fi movie After you were contacted by PCGamesN, Quantic Labs released an official response to the claims, calling some of the claims made in the original video “inaccurate.”
In a statement signed by the CEO of Quantic Labs, Stefan Seicarescu, the quality control studio that also worked on The Witcher 3, clarifies that the whistleblower’s statements represent a misunderstanding of the development of the game and do not reflect the guarantee process of quality of the main games. budget games
“The video posted on social media begins with false claims about the history of Quantic Lab,” says Quantic Labs.[And] there seems to be a lack of understanding of how a game is tested before it hits the market.
“All of our dealings with our clients are confidential, but global publishers generally work with multiple QA outsourcing companies, not relying on just one, plus internal developer-level QA resources in most of the cases. Project direction is agreed and adjusted as needed in real time with our clients. »
In the first Upper Echelon Gamers video, an anonymous whistleblower claims that CD Projekt Red expected the Quantic Labs QA team assigned to Cyberpunk to be made up of the same management staff as The Witcher 3 team. They also claim that Quantic Labs created daily bug-finding quotas for their staff, which led testers to focus on small, trivial bugs to accomplish their goals, rather than larger Cyberpunk issues.
While that may still be true, this statement suggests that Quantic Labs was not the only company responsible for quality control of Cyberpunk 2077. More generally, this means that testing the game before release is not the sole responsibility of QuanticLabs.
We will continue to update you on this story as it develops.
Source : PC Gamesn
