Does my game need to be bug-free to launch?

No, no game ships bug-free, and waiting for perfection means never launching. Readiness means the launch-threatening problems (frequent crashes, progress loss, broken core features) are fixed and the minor remaining bugs are patchable. With crash reporting and monitoring live, you can catch and fix what slips through after launch, so 'ready' means handled and watchable, not flawless.

What's a concrete way to measure launch readiness?

Your crash-free rate on real hardware, from a beta or demo. It should be at a level where the game is genuinely enjoyable rather than crashing players out regularly, with the high-impact crashes fixed. Combined with confirming critical paths work, this is a measurable readiness bar, far better than a vague feeling that the game 'feels done,' which often hides device-specific crashes you haven't seen.

How Do I Know If My Game Is Ready to Launch?

Quick answer: Judge readiness by stability data, not gut feel: run a beta or demo that captures real crashes, get your crash-free rate to an acceptable level on real hardware, and confirm critical paths work.

Knowing if your game is ready to launch is hard because 'ready' isn't 'perfect', no game ships bug-free. Readiness means the launch-threatening problems are handled and you can see and react to what's left. Here's how to judge it with data rather than nerves.

Test on Real Players and Hardware First

You can't judge launch readiness from your own machine, real players on real hardware surface crashes you'll never see locally. A beta or demo that captures crashes from real players tells you how the game actually holds up across devices, which is the evidence readiness should be based on.

Bugnet captures crashes and reports from beta and demo builds with device context, so you enter the readiness decision knowing what real hardware throws at your game. Readiness judged on real-world data beats readiness judged on 'it works for me.'

Get Your Crash-Free Rate to an Acceptable Level

A concrete readiness signal is your crash-free rate on real hardware. You don't need it perfect, but it should be at a level where the game is genuinely enjoyable, not crashing players out regularly. If your crash-free rate is low or the top crashes are unfixed, you're not ready.

Bugnet tracks crash rates so you can see your crash-free figure and the issues dragging it down. Getting the high-impact crashes fixed and the crash-free rate to an acceptable level is a measurable readiness bar, far better than a vague sense that the game 'feels done.'

Confirm Critical Paths and Plan for the Rest

Beyond stability, confirm the critical paths work, launch, save/load, purchase, core loop, since breaking these is catastrophic. Then accept that some bugs will remain and plan for them: have crash reporting and monitoring live so you can catch and fix what slips through after launch.

Bugnet's monitoring means you launch able to see and react to whatever remains. Knowing if your game is ready to launch is testing on real hardware, hitting an acceptable crash-free rate, and confirming critical paths, with monitoring ready for the bugs that inevitably remain. Ready means handled and watchable, not perfect.

Judge readiness by stability data, run a beta that captures real crashes, hit an acceptable crash-free rate on real hardware, and confirm critical paths. Ready means launch-threatening bugs handled and monitoring live, not perfect.