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You are right, things can be broken in a beta. But this rogue update that smoked people’s settings and “community” content really isn’t a new “bug”. There’s no way to really spin this into “it’s our fault for joining the beta.” Glad i only run a stock setup for 24 and don’t have anything in my community folder. I will get back in the beta once the coast is clear, but having Steam helps. Not a fan of the MS Store. Steam is way more robust.
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I know! It is really shocking. Anyone in this business knows that these type things just don't accidentally happen. For something like this to happen there are serious flaws in Asobo's process. This is one of those issues where you can't just overlook a mistake like this. You can't just explain it away. The software guys at MS are going to be asking questions, because this isn't just one mistake. It points to a complete failure on a bunch of levels. To release anything to production, you need to go through multiple levels. 1. Preliminary evaluation of the current dev build. Call it a smoke test. Assuming this passes it goes to another team to review. 2. Merge the code to a stage environment, notify QA and have the test cases ready to run. These test cases (probably many hundreds, if not thousands) will incorporate the standard tests plus any new ones impacted by the most recent changes. BTW, the guy merging this code is a senior member of the team, so you are severely limiting who can do this step. 3. QA runs their tests and reports back with lots of bugs. 4. Development fixes those and prepares a new build. This cycle repeats until a solid build is ready. 5. Then you notify the appropriate people that a deployment to production is happening. There are sign offs for this. You need QA to sign off. You may have a handful of senior testers who also sign off. Then it gets delivered to the deployment team. Access to this final step is very limited. Bottom line: A rogue update like this should never happen unless the process Asobo is using is very loose. Remember, you can be a really talented software developer working on a big team, but that doesn't mean the process you are a part of is professional in any way. But again, look at how FS24 was released. They need to get their act together. None of these things are rocket science.