This seems to be a problem with society in general to me. The video game industry is just a part of it. At least in my opinion.
......Amen Bro.......
Sadly I blame the Dev's more. But some does go to steam for their auto update program for games. As much as I like the feature when the patches do not break the game more and they actually fix the game issues.
But to the testing of games. I have to blame gamers wanting to pay for early access this made game dev's think. Hey why pay for people to test the games when we can get the gamers to do that work for us. Heck even pay to do it to....... This practice should be stopped by all gamers then then Game dev's will have to do their job when no one will buy their games.
[Edited by Toki, 12/11/2013 4:19:03 PM]
I agree on the early access issue. I think until gamers stop this practice on our end of paying to test a game for them, game devs will not change the way they are moving their products to the market.