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by gabythenerd 1199 days ago
QA normally do everything manually, with 0 automation I can see some games taking more than 500 testers to go through all possible paths. Especially in live service games like Apex.

I worked briefly on a AAA game and my team had 2 dedicated american QAs for the feature that knew everything there was to know and tested happy paths/made docs, and there also was a building of testers in Ukraine that tried to break the game in a myriad of ways and filled general bugs.

At some point in alpha we had around 500 bugs filled in jira, and this was only one game mode.

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> to go through all possible paths

This isn't even possible, I'd be amazed at 25% of paths!