29/05/2014 - Godus Update – New Opt-In Build Available

Matthew, I fail to see how telling us that the devs find 10 times as many bugs as we do as the reason for slow progress is a good 'line' for you to take or can even be seen as a beneficial statement to make, period. If I find and report an issue and a developer finds out that actually its a dozen different issues which magically line up to give one end user bug experience, as an end user I could not care.
Or if I cannot see their 10 issues because they system exploded for me before I can find/experience those ten, so what.

I've been developing software for more than 25 years and frankly to me as a developer statements such as 'accountable on their rate of completion' are distasteful at best.

Thanks. I suppose that's actually pretty common, for the Devs to find more bugs and things the players never see.

Question; if they find 10x more bugs per every bug reported, then why are (most of) these not listed in the "Known" or "Fixed" columns in the Patch Notes? At least, the larger, more persistent ones, or any that might be more pervasive or potentially game-breaking, should be listed for the players/testers; fixed or not. Even letting us know that they fixed something as minor as "the word {blah} was misspelled on {such-and-such}" is better than nothing. Likewise, it doesn't need be too specific for sweeping fixes like, "smoothed all the meshes on all the houses that were glitching", instead of listing each house individually. And I'm not talking about the in-house development version that hasn't been released yet, but anything they fix in the releasetest and the open-beta version. I might not have used the best examples (I'll think how to clarify), and I know they need to be somewhat choosy which ones to list - because listing every little nudge is just silly - but you know what I mean; I'm just curious to know more.

Granted, "10" was just a number I threw around. No idea what the actual stats are on that.  Anywho, to answer your question, in most cases the minor bugs that the programming team finds in one update get fixed in the next. Not always of course (cause that'd be awesome), but that's why you'll not see an addition to the Known Issues list as that's more for keeping the community informed of the commonly reported and unfixed issues, as opposed to it being a more dynamic daily changing document, if only because it'd be getting updated every few hours (which is where our proper bug tracking software comes in). Something like what you're talking about is more of a patch notes thing I feel. Are you guys interested in more of the nitty gritty (and minor) changes whenever we post updates?

I'm a little curious what the community's opinion on bugs vs features is. I know for myself I'd much rather they focus on adding new features and iterating on existing systems than fixing bugs – even if the game becomes more unstable.

Of course in the real world they have to keep a balance; if they ignore bugs too much it'll get to the point that it becomes harder to add new features, but I do think the goal should be new stuff over stability. Is this something other people feel?