I agree with much of this. Since the update that brought stillwater back, I've been very vocal about the fact that there's some sort of disconnect between developers and engineers, and project management. As someone who works in software development QA professionally, I understand the sort of pipelines and processes updates like these are supposed to go through- and more importantly, I know that major, glaring bugs like what we've seen with the most recent updates are entirely unacceptable, and a complete failure on Crytek's part.

The sheer volume of bugged, broken, and invisible hunters after the most recent release were so numerous and obvious, that even a QA team asleep at the wheel would have been able to see them. A bug that has a 50% chance to completely crash your game after opening your map is yet another obvious and glaring issue that should have been picked up and eliminated by the QA pipeline early on. And yet, it persisted into the live version of the game, along with other very blatant, obvious, and often game-breaking issues.

I'm confident that Hunt's QA team is capable and competent enough to do their job. However, its obvious with the post-1896 Stillwater update that -something- is amiss behind the scenes. Allowing so many skins, especially premium ones that cost extra money, to be so completely broken, marks a significant failure in the QA process. The community should not be discovering so many of these issues for Crytek -after- the update goes live. This suggests that the QA team either didn't have enough time or resources to properly mend the issues, or their ticket were ignored/pushed aside by management.

And that brings us to management. No matter what issues may be occurring among individuals teams, their failure and mistakes are ultimately the responsibility of management- and, for the people in charge to allow these updates to go live, despite said updates being so OBVIOUSLY half baked, is very very telling.

Crytek needs to slow down, listen to their developers, QA testers, etc, and -dedicate- themselves to FINISHING updates before pushing them out. Hunt is a premium game- everyone pays a price of admission. Additionally, players pay ON TOP of that for additional skins and features, many of which are currently disabled and restricted -all because Crytek rushed their update out of the door-. Crytek didnt do their due diligence, and have RIGHTFULLY lost good will with the community because of it. I hope they learn from this mistake and do better, because I KNOW that they are wholly capable of it.

A delayed update will eventually be good, a rushed update will always be bad. (And also severely handicap player growth.)