Add Ability To Report Bugs In-Game

[Elexia]

Just fyi, most of those bug report features are the same thing as going to a website form to fill out, the in-game feature is usually there because of the lack of a forum or proper website setup. SimCity 2013 does this and it simply directed you to a specific section for reporting/feedback. Forum vs In-Game are both very easy as there's already a lodestone team that monitors the website/forums that can relay info and already collect data internally as players are playi...err "testing."

[Pwnagraphic]

Just fyi, most of those bug report features are the same thing as going to a website form to fill out, the in-game feature is usually there because of the lack of a forum or proper website setup. SimCity 2013 does this and it simply directed you to a specific section for reporting/feedback. Forum vs In-Game are both very easy as there's already a lodestone team that monitors the website/forums that can relay info and already collect data internally as players are playi...err "testing."

I get that and I thought of that as I typed it in. Yes, you cane easily go to the website and report your bug on the forum but that's what I was trying to get at. Why go flood the forums and look through 100+ pages to see if your bug has already been reported? I don't know if you were in Alpha, but 98% of the bug report thread was people complaining. That's not simple for me, someone who is actually testing the game, to go and leave a report on an issue. If SE likes doing that, then cool. I don't and I know I'm not alone.

[Elexia]

I get that and I thought of that as I typed it in. Yes, you cane easily go to the website and report your bug on the forum but that's what I was trying to get at. Why go flood the forums and look through 100+ pages to see if your bug has already been reported? I don't know if you were in Alpha, but 98% of the bug report thread was people complaining. That's not simple for me, someone who is actually testing the game, to go and leave a report on an issue. If SE likes doing that, then cool. I don't and I know I'm not alone.

Yeah so they'll likely do what SC2013 does with it if they do add a feature like this. I was and I agree, but it's mostly the issue you have on these forums: Most are duplicate, sometimes 8x the same thing over and over and no one really takes the time to properly format anything, but that's why they also had quite a lot of people monitoring and responding. So if anything, i think the data they collect from monitoring in-game is probably why they go with the setup they go with.

[Quesse]

Just fyi, most of those bug report features are the same thing as going to a website form to fill out, the in-game feature is usually there because of the lack of a forum or proper website setup. SimCity 2013 does this and it simply directed you to a specific section for reporting/feedback. Forum vs In-Game are both very easy as there's already a lodestone team that monitors the website/forums that can relay info and already collect data internally as players are playi...err "testing."

You just broke their NDA :/

[Zehira]

You just broke their NDA :/

Elexia is a NDA breaker.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Just fyi, most of those bug report features are the same thing as going to a website form to fill out, the in-game feature is usually there because of the lack of a forum or proper website setup. SimCity 2013 does this and it simply directed you to a specific section for reporting/feedback. Forum vs In-Game are both very easy as there's already a lodestone team that monitors the website/forums that can relay info and already collect data internally as players are playi...err "testing."

You pretty much summed it all up, Elexia. I do remember hearing from someone that when the Alpha forums did close, some people found game-breaking bugs in the game and had no way to report them. Like, someone posted screenshots on different forums of the game-breaking bugs (I saw the screenshots, too). It would have been wise if SE left those forums open until the Alpha servers were taken offline. Then again, it's pretty much up to SE to decide what is right.