Quote Originally Posted by Odin
Again the industry is not dicatated by suits in an office, or spectacle wearing programers in a cubical, its dictated by the consumer. Its a very simple economic model, you release a game that works and your consumer base helps you identify the problems.
Correction, it IS dictated by suits in their offices, but based on their perceptions of the consumers (usually as given to them by their marketing drones).

Your getting paying customers to test your product, why wouldnt you do that? There is only one piece of this equation that can change the current system and that is the consumer.
Agree completely, the one thing we can fix is ourselves. Vote with your cash, and don't lower your standards or expectations.

BTW Quickening, I kinda figured you were going to get flamed into oblivion on this one. For the record I agree with your asssessment, this one should have stayed in the oven longer, I've gone on to playing other games until further patches come out.