03-29-2007, 05:29 PM
brell.... while what you say is of course true...(and I know that obviously) I still find important that a designer is playing his own mansion from start to finish as often as possible.
'Cause he designed it, he also knows it best....and even if he doesn't have the distance to find certain things a beta-tester can find, it is alo often the case that a designer -simply because he knows his mansion so well- will find other problems, issues or faults which a beta-tester will not spot immediately.
IMHO it's the combination that works best.
(BTW, I don't want to come across narrow-minded or something.... but if - like in The Church's case - something as obvious as the missing music error-message hasn't been spotted during beta-testing, I'm not too sure about the depth of testing that went on....).
'Cause he designed it, he also knows it best....and even if he doesn't have the distance to find certain things a beta-tester can find, it is alo often the case that a designer -simply because he knows his mansion so well- will find other problems, issues or faults which a beta-tester will not spot immediately.
IMHO it's the combination that works best.
(BTW, I don't want to come across narrow-minded or something.... but if - like in The Church's case - something as obvious as the missing music error-message hasn't been spotted during beta-testing, I'm not too sure about the depth of testing that went on....).