Developers getting too lax

Yes, I remember the classic games like they were yesterday. Where bugs and glitches were practically nonexistent, and there were no achievements/trophies to win.
It isn't like today, where if one thing loads incorrectly, you are screwed. I have thusfar had this problem in only two games: Call of Duty: World at War, and Crysis 2. It is a very big bug that arises now and then, and causes you to have to restart an entire mission because one thing didn't line up correctly in the loading, so a cutscene/checkpoint doesn't activate.
This feature can be very game-breaking for many games, and can even be a deciding factor on whether or not to touch the game again. I myself never played World At War again after that, and sold it back to Gamestop as well.

But the games in the past never had problems like these. I must have played Call of Duty 2: Big Red One a dozen times and never experienced a single bug. The same goes for 007 Nightfire, 007 Goldeneye, Doom, or any other game predating 2004 even.

So my question for you is, are developers getting too lax? With a system where they can fix any bug they want at will, are they not paying enough attention to the end-product people pay good money for?
Some games, like The Elder Scrolls Series, and Fallout Series are prime examples of this as well as few ever hear of game-breaking bugs from TES games before III, or Fallout and Fallout 2. So where down the line did developers stop caring as much about the end-product? Do they even see it as an end-product anymore?

Discuss.

The Elder Scrolls and Fallout are bound to have bugs, simply because of the sheer size of them, and the monumental task required in programming the game, but for some of the other games there's no excuse. A particularly good example is FF XIV, the developer actually apologized for it. When someone apologizes for a game, that's the sign that they're getting lazy.

I, and fluffy gods above thank you, have never had this problem. All the games I get run perfectly on my first gen XBOX360.(Very first gen, like one of the originals) However I have seen that it makes some ingame things odd, like some weapons look a little odd, and my friends copy of RDR had a revolver called teh colt peacmaker, which when I looked up online didn't exist, but this was at the time it had just been released, I think he may have preordered.

ANyhow, yes, I do believe they are getting lazy, alot of glitches I hear about are very easy to fix. Although the glitches on BO I did seemed more like they were designed on purpose.....

Actually old games were quite buggy as well. For Example.

Amazing Mr. X wrote:Actually old games were quite buggy as well. For Example.

I would like to point out (having only watched about 30 seconds of this) all the cartridge-related ones are do to technical hardware problems, not software problems.
There is a reason people used to have to blow into those things, you know.

Envy661 wrote:

Amazing Mr. X wrote:Actually old games were quite buggy as well. For Example.

I would like to point out (having only watched about 30 seconds of this) all the cartridge-related ones are do to technical hardware problems, not software problems.
There is a reason people used to have to blow into those things, you know.

While a lot of the glitches in older games was because of dirty contacts or something there were a lot of bugs. But for the most part were not game breaking. I think the severity of glitches (and the reasoning) has changed a bit since then. You just gotta find ways of getting around it or fixing it. I love that Rocky graphics glitch they showed, which is part of the 3d model and part of the graphics not reading the data right. I've seen similar glitches in Halo CE when someone didn't fully know what they were doing when making the map. You'd get huge planes of texture going across the screen blocking things (yet moving when you moved or looked around). And similar happened when I was playing Motorstorm on a PS3 at Target. The back of my truck had a moving vertex on the model that would glitch way out of the skybox when showing the model at certain angles.