Seriously -- why was this game released prematurely?

[ForzaA]

I'm going with

c) The far larger group of buyers could establish patterns and replicate things that the smaller playtest group could not.

alternatively

d) the fascist moderators are so powerful they manage to introduce bugs into the game somewhere between the Paradox office and the end user.
They'd also like to remind everyone that there's only very few people that can comment on why HOI3 was released when it was and as a result of what playtesting.

 

[Johan]

256th thread on this.

Game was tested with dozens of active beta testers, all reported problems fixed, and we seriously believed the game was in fine shape.