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>Portal 2 originally had a secret ending where you could just portal to the moon and suck yourself into space in like the first level
>removed because no players ever bothered to try it out during playtesting
>the antlion hive in Half Life 2: Episode 2 was originally supposed to be a much longer and maze-like level, shortened dramatically because playtesters kept constantly getting lost and going in circles

I'm starting to think that whole thing from Portal 2 of Aperture Science hiring homeless people to test and paying them $60 was a deeper joke than it seems.