Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!umnd-cs!umn-cs!meccts!meccsd!rms From: rms@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Roger M. Shimada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Electronic Arts bashing Message-ID: <785@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 17:53:49 EDT Article-I.D.: meccsd.785 Posted: Fri Jul 10 17:53:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 14:01:22 EDT References:<2496@husc6.UUCP> Reply-To: rms@meccsd.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada) Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp. Lines: 25 In article <2496@husc6.UUCP> hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes: >In article <2381@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes: >>3) NOT by increasing QA procedures - recent EA products are just as >> buggy as the early ones were, and the copy protect schemes just as >> drastic. > > Incorrect. The products recently released that were buggy >were the most complex products EA had ever developed, and also under >the constraint of an ever-changing OS (from 1.1 to 1.2). They were >just not prepared to deal with the bugs that came up. They ARE >aware of the problem, however, and have been (since last December) >in the process of setting up a full-blown professional QA department. >Unfortunately too late for many of last year's products. ... A friend of mine just got Earl Weaver Baseball a week ago. (He got himself on a dealer's send-me-a-copy-as-soon-as-you-get-one list.) He runs Workbench 1.2 and has 2 meg on a Microbotics add on. It eventually crashes with the extended memory. I can't believe EA can have any real excuses for this. Between buggy software and loads of vaporware, the Amiga is sometimes a real pain. Roger M. Shimada UUCP:rms@MECC.MN.ORG,ihnp4!meccts!rms