Which known bugs are acceptable to ship with?

Minor, low-impact bugs that don't ruin the experience, cosmetic glitches, rare edge cases, small issues, and that you can patch after launch. The bugs to fix first are the launch-ruining ones: frequent crashes, save or progress loss, broken core features. The line is whether a bug would meaningfully harm your launch reception; impact triage helps you tell which side a bug falls on.

Is it bad to launch with known bugs?

No, it's normal and unavoidable, every released game launched with known unfixed bugs, since perfection isn't achievable. What matters is being deliberate: fixing the serious, launch-threatening bugs beforehand, documenting the minor remaining ones (a known-issues list actually builds trust), and patching them in updates. Shipping with minor bugs and a plan to patch is healthy launching.

Should I Ship My Game With Known Bugs?

Q: Should I ship my game with known bugs?

Yes, every game ships with known bugs; there's no bug-free release. The real decision is which bugs are acceptable: ship with minor, patchable issues (cosmetic glitches, rare edge cases) but fix launch-ruining ones first (crashes, progress loss, broken core features). Triage by impact, fix the serious bugs, and document and patch the rest after launch.

Quick answer: Yes, every game ships with known bugs, the question is which ones. Ship with minor, patchable issues; don't ship with launch-ruining ones like crashes or progress loss. Triage by impact, fix the serious ones, and document and patch the rest.

"Should I ship with known bugs?" has a counterintuitive answer: yes, because every game does, there's no such thing as a bug-free release. The real decision isn't whether to ship with bugs, but which bugs are acceptable to ship with and which must be fixed first.

Every Game Ships With Known Bugs

Perfection is not the bar, and treating it as one means never shipping. Every released game, including the polished ones you admire, launched with known unfixed bugs. Accepting this reframes the question productively: not "can I eliminate all bugs?" (no) but "which remaining bugs are acceptable?"

So the answer to the literal question is yes. What matters is being deliberate about which bugs you ship with, rather than either shipping blindly or chasing an impossible zero. Bugnet's impact data is what makes that deliberate triage possible.

Don't Ship With Launch-Ruining Bugs

Some bugs you should fix before shipping: frequent crashes, save or progress loss, broken core features, anything that would wreck first impressions and generate a wave of negative launch reviews. These cause lasting, hard-to-recover damage, so they're worth delaying for. The line is whether a bug would meaningfully harm your launch.

Bugnet ranks issues by how many players they affect and distinguishes crashes from minor reports, so you can identify the launch-threatening bugs that must be fixed. Those are the non-negotiables before you ship.

Ship With Minor Bugs, Then Patch

The bugs you can ship with are the minor ones, cosmetic glitches, rare edge cases, low-impact issues, that don't ruin the experience and can be patched after launch. Document them (a known-issues list builds trust), ship, and fix them in updates. This is normal, healthy launching.

Bugnet helps you triage which bugs are minor enough to ship with, document them publicly, and patch them quickly afterward. So yes, ship with known bugs, the minor, patchable kind, while fixing the launch-ruining ones first, and use impact triage to tell the difference.

Yes, every game ships with known bugs, the question is which. Ship with minor patchable ones; fix launch-ruining crashes and progress loss first. Triage by impact.