Testing budget.

I would say to the administrators and Management listen to you talent. Get the best testing tools you can get for consumer testing.

Once you start letting people in for alpha / beta testing really good tools for the testers and developers interaction will save you so much time and money. It seems like games that fall short on these tools are more prone to miss deadlines, waste time, and don’t get a great game at release.

Testing tools include TIME and People not just software. I was an office manager for a wireless software / hardware R & D company. We found that by giving our talent the best tools, and not skimping on budget, our talent was very happy to put in mad hours. We never missed a deadline.