Should Hosted Games be vetted more thoroughly?

[FairyGodfeather]

@Aereath

And COG could polish up the game themselves (If they are willing to do it on their own instead of hiring an editor. Money saved, but lots of man-labor needed)

Yeah not money saved at all since the Choice of Games staff do still need to be paid. AND any time spent doing this is time not spent doing their other duties.

@Aereath

or get an extra group of volunteer beta-testers that focus on the correction of language instead of bugs, where you pay them a small fee and give them the game for free, to do the spray and polishing.

Choice of Games cannot do this. If they were paying money then they’d need employee contracts and everything else that comes with that. Choice of Games are actually restricted in what they can and can’t ask unpaid beta-testers to do because there’s certain employment laws they don’t want to run afoul of.

@jasonstevanhill

There are two ways of doing beta testing: volunteer and paid. If you’re volunteer (like the people on this forum) I can’t (legally) give you directions about how to play the game, because then I’m directing you. “Direction” is one of those ticky-boxes that the Federal and State governments go to to determine employment status; us giving testers “direction” (or worse, a “schedule”!) is taking away work from a potential/hypothetical employee. Thus, it is my understanding that we can’t give direction or schedules to volunteer beta testers.