Only thing incorrect is your opinion here.

Again a QA/QC team´s job is to test the flow of a game as well test for bugs and if the flow is disrupted by something then their job is to report it back and tell them that this particular thing does not work.

But let´s take the job description from EA

Quality Assurance Testers (“QA Testers”) perform a vital role in game development: testing, analyzing, and recording, any flaws or “bugs.” These refinements ultimately lead to higher quality and better playability of the finished game. The job involves: testing the game in a systematic way, analyzing the game's performance against the designer's intentions, identifying and reporting problems, and suggesting improvements. However, it also involves creativity and ingenuity, which is used to figure how to ‘break’ the game in different and unique ways. In effect, QA Testers act as the game's first audience by reporting on playability and identifying any aspects that could be improved. Testers are responsible for finding these bugs in a game before it goes public and assuring quality in the final product.

And I think everyone can see that the specific feature is something that disrupts the playability and could be improved.

Of course, it´s an error if the design choice disrupts the flow of the game. And this clearly was not intended in a mission about stealth.

Also no it´s not the job of a QA/QC team to simply confirm the developer's ideas is there, they play the game to test the flow among a wide range of other things, like the obvious one to find bugs.

hehe yep

Liberals went haywire.

Not really

And you are correct a QC/QA team do not make design choices but they do test the game and how it works, so when an obvious error like the above comes around, they report it back to the team leader who then go to the weekly design meeting and reports it to the design team.

Well, they would in an ideal world where they actually knew about games and played them.

Nothing illegal about the moving of funds.

Again you may find it morally wrong but legally it´s all kosher.

A design choice can be an error.

That´s why there is a QC/QA team

@tryit: Sure but my point still stands

Why is this such a major horrible thing, it´s a journalist and so what?

Murder is bad no matter who it is, but the world is going crazy over this is insane.

Think he spent the money he got from the sale of Origin systems but come on if you had the chance, wouldn´t you go to space ?

And ya Tabula Rasa promised a lot but I think NCsoft ruined it by imposing insane deadlines and their crazy Korean ideas on it. a shame he chose to leave and go do Shroud instead.

Ya or that.

These kinds of things always make me wonder who actually get a job as a QC/QA tester, because every time a big game is released it comes out with so obvious errors, that you would have to be blind not to see them.

lol ok

Well, Gavin made Crash Bandicoot with his small studio you may have heard of Naughty Dog., Levine is, of course, the famous Bioshock who in his last game bankrupted his studio because he was insane, and Molyneux is Fable, Black & White and Godus.