I have been saying for a few years now that games dont get properly tested. These companies are so cheap and lazy now they dont want to test their own games. Its been like this for just about 10+ years now. Lets go back to 2000 and before when there weren't any online play really. These companies had to actually pay people to test their games. Not this crap today where its a preview just to get people to try the game and hope they like it. Back then the games that came out hardly had any bugs. Yes some bugs may have been missed but nothing on the scale like it is today. Perhaps if companies actually spent time and money on a game besides paying for crappy coders, these companies wouldn't be getting the hate they are now. Don't get me wrong, i like the division but its just absurd that a company would even release a game in the state it is now. Half of the glitches out there in this game have been around since the very first beta. Go and google some videos and look at the dates. I dont see how all those glitches actually got into the sold game.
I will say i have been a beta tester for other games, not back in the day like the OP. But what i dont understand is i can report this bug or this exploit. Upload the video to the company. Get a reply saying thanks and then the game comes out and its still there. Weeks later other people find that glitch and exploit the **** out of it and then the company gets mad that people use the glitch. These companies know that it exists but dont do a thing to fix it until its to late. Don't these companies want there game to work properly? I guess not.
Gaming for 37 years here. OP is right. BTW...SWTOR has got it spot on with dealing with cheats. I came from SWTOR to this as i like guns rather than light-sabers. Disappointed i am, go back to SWTOR i may. So much potential in a game. For gods sake make it server sided and not client and the problems will almost go overnight. Sry for SWTOR compare but that game is perfect in all areas and pretty much from the beginning they got it right.