When They Know It Sucks.

[The Devil Man]

And about your testing comment Devil Man; true, games sometimes ship with bugs that testers found, but you've got to look at it this way; aside from time pressures to get the game out, sometimes the bugs just aren't big enough to warrant delaying release any longer to fix. If it's not a common thing and has no major effect on gameplay, then they may let it slide, since it's not worth the extra time and money at that point. It may sound pretty lazy, and I'm not trying to defend it, but it's the way things go sometimes.

Yeah, I know what you mean and agree.

For example, a game like Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion on the XBox 360 has many little bugs but the game is just so huge that its easy to forgive it anything.

Another game that I purchased recently is Just Cause and that also has many small, annoying bugs, but the developers have lavished so much time and attention on it that its so easy to simply overlook it and enjoy the game.

I guess whats annoying is when a game has lots of bugs but is so heavily marketed with a massive advertising budget and sells millions as a result. Driver 3 is what always comes to mind. Bad games making their publishers and developers lots of money seems like a gross injustice.