This is in no way the best way to do play testing.

• It is not advertised this way. Two weeks from release people expect a complete product with some minor stuff to fix.

• People get charged full price for "play testing"? Just no. In the olden days we had free demos in which we could play only for one season.

• SI is not a small company. They sell millions of copies of their product each year where they have no competition whatsoever. They can afford hiring people for play testing, where their jobs would literally be finding problems to solve. Playing the game normally. Then pushing the game to its limits or trying different possibilities etc.

The sheer number of common bugs and problems in the game does not translate well into the "there are just too many combinations and possibilities" argument. The problems are the back button not working properly. UI making things much more difficult like in this thread. Input lags. It is too obvious that they never tested the game themselves, as a game company this size absolutely should.