I’ll ask you this. How many hours have we had to wait for a fix for these two addons that had the issue, two VERY important addons that lots of people are waiting for, that would have been caught if they skipped the test on the development environment and tested solely on a computer and Xbox that was connected like user’s machines would be?
How many users had to deal with, “Hey, why isn’t this working. What the heck is wrong with these products?”
What happened to Asobo’s and the developer’s in question credibility when these bugs slipped through?
Was this problem worth saving those 10 hours of testing, during which they skipped a huge portion of the test process? Why bother testing at all? How many sales have been lost due to the issue? Would those losses and loss of credibility have paid for that testing (granted, across all products)?
There’s no excuses here. Their test process is flawed in a major way. Skip the test in the development environment then if you’re worried about those 10 hours.
Your statistic on the % of products with problems is also flawed, and an example that you can make statistics say whatever you want them to say.
I’m sorry, I cannot accept the excuses for why these issues weren’t caught, if they would have been caught had the test regimen been properly specified, and, if, in fact, they don’t do the same testing outside of their environment.