So what if she isn't a huge fan of shooters or even isn't generally good at them? It takes all kinds to find bugs, and someone who doesn't know what they're doing may find something someone who is great at the game would never have done because 'why would you even do that?' It's diversity in interest and a broad spectrum of skill in your testers that finds you the most bugs.

If you're going to complain about certain bugs not being fixed, complain at the people in charge of actually dealing with the bugs, not the playtesters who file the reports and send them in but have no control beyond 'hey guys, I found this.'

yah i have nothing for this....

it would help if they tested ON PS3 rahter than an overpowered PC development rig

I'm sorry, but you're talking to me based on your opinions. You don't actually know what the testing process is like. The playtesters can't possibly hope to focus on central points because the playtesters, in most cases, don't know the code or how something is supposed to function. The playtesters are, usually, average people paid to play the game and give feedback. They will be given the game, told to play a specific part of the game, and will do so for hours on end until it's time to go home or they're told to try out another segment. If they find a bug and are asked to recreate it, they will do so.

It is at the direction of whoever is supervising the tests that they try out specific portions of the game, though there are testers who are given a broader leash and are allowed to check through casual play. But even if you have a hundred people working in one specific area they may not find some things. Even ones that may seem glaringly wrong to us. And even if they do find it, bugs aren't as easy as a snap of the fingers to fix. Some bugs may take weeks or months to finally figure out what was causing the problem. Some bugs may never get fixed in the game's entire lifetime. And with how poorly written we know the original devs made this game, not a single person should be bashing CCP Pheonix because she was a playtester and there are still bugs in the game. In no scenario is it the fault of the playtester that these bugs aren't dealt with. The fault lies with the original devs. The ones we've got now seem to be working pretty damn hard.

the "testers" also dont ever get to test a final launch build, they are givin bits and pieces at a time that may mor may not even end up in the launch build, and alot of the time arnt givin pieces at all due to CCPs development structure.

they arnt givin anything to do with dropsuit/weapon/module/vehicle stat changes because those are done by running a script that changes the values on the servers.

they dont test events, becuase those are done the same way

they cant test for lag... no acess

they were givin maps... but we dont have that anymore.

and they cant test for how pieces of an update interact with each other... becuase they arnt givin final builds to test. blame CCP here becuase they will be changing crap right up untill the deadline to submit to sony.

Ghost is likely talking out his ass unless he is claiming he worked at CCP Shanghai as a tester at one point in recent history.