That may excuse the connectivity issues, not the many bugs that have nothing to do with servers or online functionality.

The 10 qa testers can't do nearly as much as the millions of users. That's why open beta testing is important.

The stress tests actually tend to throw more data at the servers than you'd see in normal day one launches. The problem is is that they can't always account for real world application of the game, where you have players doing unexpected things, which may not line up with expected results.

Sometimes the stress tests aren't adequate, but it's usually more that you go from 40 game testers, to a couple million users, and it changes the dynamics of the net code interaction on the servers.

The bugs are quite another issue though, and more because of the aforementioned fact that they may have 40 game testers at the peak, and while they may find a lot of bugs, a great number of them never get the chance to get fixed, and sometimes, those bugs can compound when applied across millions of players.

I was an early adopter when I was young. Now I'm not. I have a feeling most of us are similar. We start out with a lot of eagerness and impatience. Then we mellow out as we age, and we make more considered decisions. We wait until things are right.

That works all around. There are enough early adopters to make the whole thing viable; and the more experienced among us avoid the early issues altogether.

Because if its a multiplayer game you will be way behind in the skill gap and find it hard to compete with top players. If you a sp gamer than those types of games dont typically suffer from the same types of stress issues anyway. Im a very competitive mp gamer and would never consider buying a game i am hyped for late.

If I like a game and see potential in it, I have no issue being a day one buyer. But its up to the developer to put out something people can believe in. That's why open beta is important. Helps the potential consumer and the developer. I don't mind bugs as long as the fun is there. Bugs can be fixed... lack of fun can't. Example fallout 76.

What did you expect is EA. They love making excuses

Diablo 3's launch was a complete disaster though!

Why does an average consumer (you) pretend he knows more about the product than the devs do?

"How many beta tests does it take before you learn from the past and make the adjustments necessary to prevent server overload at launch?"

It is literally impossible to adjust for that in the beta testing or general QA phase of development. It's not specific the EA/DICE, either, this is something across the whole board.