This seems to be one of the dumbest examples of setting the wrong priorities.<br>This usually leads to work being adapted to reach a poorly described assignment, even though the assignment doesn't have anything to to with the actual goal that needs to be achieved.<br>I would guess that this most often occurs in QA, for example when the producer of some kind of good is legally required to hire a testing facility. They won't pick the lab that has the most rigorous testing routines, but one that is more lenient and much faster to assign a passing grade to units.<br>That's because the first objective of the producer isn't necessarily to release a safe product, but to pass the required test.<br>In this case, it seems like the leadership of Quantic Labs was concerned with their insufficient staff situation and tried to hide that by cranking out a huge number of low quality reports.<br>They didn't try to reach the actual goal of making the game as playable as possible by finding the most important bugs, but deviated and tried to appear busy and productive by just going for a large number.<br>That's exactly what I would expect people to do who lied on their job application and aren't actually qualified for the work: They bombard their employer with notifications on having done a whole bunch of useless busywork to appear productive, even though they are not, including hiding their workflows and attempting to avoid any and all vetting.<br>I think this whole disaster is still CDPR's fault, it would have been their responsibility to check on their contractors and closely monitor their progress, especially when the first results turn out to be not up to par.<br>It would have been as easy as demanding the list of team members at Quantic Lab and a short summary of their work experience to figure out that there are going to be problems.,(reply>), Reminds me of how our clients will sometimes imply we didn't do much work when haggling the price. No, we just didn't spam your inbox with every step we take towards the final goal. But maybe we should have so you'd be happier about paying the price we agreed on even though the end result is the same, you goober.