barmy army again

[DannyC]

Not really mate, the manu could have realised a bug and then decided to code it out not understanding about anything else on the machine.

Although what you said is more likely

Exactly as james said

They designed it, tested it, prototyped it, paid for it, developed it, built it, marketed it and sold it.

Once its passed 'test' stage the only testers from here within are the public, even some machines are released to the public 'on test' at some stage, so if they'd have found this bug AFTER testing stages that means someone out there came across this 'bug' AFTER test stage, so whether they was a tester or just joe smith, somebody still found out, and 99.939% chance it wasn't the manu's

[Scott]

First things first:

I never like to correct people unless I am 100% sure I am right.. and in this instance I am no where near certain so please dont see this as I am trying to correct you A1... I am not. (Also please note I have had quite a bit of alcohol in last few hours..)

You are trying to suggest the testing/development stage is foolproof and any fuckups they already know about? then how are you accounting for all the emptiers etc that make it to machines accessable to the public?

Even for people like microsoft etc etc that can invest millions into beta testing bugs in the code will always make it thorugh.. there is just too many variables to test for.

Granted... its very difficult to believe a 'free' win made it through testing/beta stages without anyone noticing but some of the 'tricks' out there are just so complex I do believe to a certain extent that they were completly missed by the testers (think Rat pack[?])

[a1056688]

Scotty, what you say is exactly right and Microsoft is a good example.

Bugs do make it past the test stage with any piece of software.

I was referring to the statement that the manu knows nothing about the machine.

They know an awful lot about the machine, more than any player does.

It's certainly easy to see how methods like Rat Pack and Royal Family get past testing stages but look at Bling King, god only knows how this ever made it the distribution stage. Any tester worth the shoes he stands up in would be expected to test payout % against actual % to check the win has registered. It's a conspiracy!

[S6TAV]

Measuring Windows code against a fruit machine code QUALITY!!

I agree with you a1 every feature should be tried and tested over and over again and then some more. It is hard to see how some silly things slip through. I say silly but im not complaining

Just like the Aliens landing in Roswell it is just one big conspiracy