Caporegime
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Nvidia have gone on the record as saying one of the biggest value things they bring to a TWIMTBP/gameworks game is providing testing, so they absolutely DO, by their own mouth, get involved in the QA of games. Thus if we presume they were involved in Batman's QA... uh oh.
On top of that, they are a company supposedly with huge cash and power and they can pick and choose developers they want to throw cash at to use their gameworks code(or so they wan us to believe), yet the developers they work with aren't bringing out flawless games, but consistently buggy games. They continue to throw money at Ubisoft and providing their games for free when they are currently producing the most buggy most awful performance at launch games in the industry.
It's Nvidia's choice to work with Ubisoft, who keep making dire games with huge performance issues and Nvidia could chose to stop slapping their name on every Ubisoft game and stop paying them and bundling games with their GPUs. They could pick a reputable game dev who makes good games which would encourage Ubisoft to stop screwing around and make better games.
When a dev consistently screws up and Nvidia rewards them with millions more in game bundling/gameworks and providing testing deals it is only reinforcing that Nvidia believe Ubisoft are doing fine.
It's no where near as simple as you make it out, Nvidia DO have control, first because their code is being used and they make a huge point of talking up how many coders they send along to help a game out, they make a big deal about helping out in testing and they keep throwing money at the same company that is consistently the worst.
How many games, Fall Out 4 being no exception, is Nvidia involved with during coding, design and release that you can find dozens of performance/IQ tweaks within minutes that aren't included in the ultra setting to begin with?
Why are users adding sweetfx to make games look better when Nvidia is so heavily involved(as they tell us) that they aren't getting devs to make games look good from the start? Why did something like Watchdogs come out both performing horribly on powerful PCs including Nvidia ones, but also looking miles from anything in prerelease screen shots AND why was it days later someone else was hacking in IQ improvements there in the files that simply weren't enabled?
Nvidia is involved heavily with these games yet does and says nothing about most of these missing features, lowered IQ, poor performance and not only ignores them but makes new deals with the same company that keeps screwing over gamers?
They should be doing more with their testing, more with their onsite coders, more with their drivers and most importantly... stop working with the worst company in the business.
However that leads me to, if only the worst devs who consistently make dodgy games are using gameworks consistently, does Nvidia actually have a choice who is using it or are reputable devs refusing to use gameworks?
This isnt some kind of Mr Robot web cam hack is it? 
