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I just played Call of Duty: Black Ops last night online. I was stalking a guy from behind. Suddenly I was shot and killed. The kill cam showed he had been facing me for some time and was waiting for the perfect shot. Often times what can be perceived as a game problem is actually a network problem. I've been shot by corpses before, its nearly always a lag thing. I'm not saying your problems are lag issues though. The people disappearing can be hardware. I've had NPC's completely vanish from my screen except for whatever object they were carrying (even during cut scenes). I turn off my system for an hour or two and turn it back on to replay the scene and the person is there. My system had gotten too hot. And sometimes the issue is coding. I've beta tested games in private betas before and saw very problems only to see that exact version get released with the problems fixed and find out there were a ton more problems that were never found. Unfortunately, the software companies cannot afford to hire enough testers and QA to ensure the software is glitch or problem free. The only option they would have is to provide thousands of copies for beta testing. The issue with that is that they would then lose sales because they'd be providing the game for free to people who would have bought it. The biggest problem is that the consumers have no patience. We hear about a game and we demand it be released right away. If a game gets delayed to fix a problem, we get pissed and they immediately lose sales. If we could be patient enough to wait for a solid version of the game to be released the software companies would have time to do more thorough testing. Instead we want it now and we pay the price of bugs, glitches, and problems. Then we sit and whine about how they released it "broken" instead of waiting til the game was fixed to release. Its a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.
 
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