Third Seasons Patch is out....
eevilcat:
I imagine that one of the main reasons for screwing up the patch was lack of testing resource i.e. testers and machines. Being realistic, this was a second patch for the fifth EP and I'll bet that the majority of the test department are tied up with the next round or two of lies and propaganda (life stories pt2, bon voyage). They will also have concentrated their test plans on fixed Seasons bugs/functionality with likely very little regression testing against normal gameplay hence the crying babies creeping back in. This doesn't excuse what happened but it is probably a fairly accurate analysis. Yes, PC games are shipped with known bugs, it's just a question of where the publisher sets the threshold for what it believes the target audience will tolerate.
J. M. Pescado:
The real question is why the unnecessarily fucked with something that wasn't broken just to break it again.
eevilcat:
Maybe they fuxxed up their source control? They probably branched for the first patch and screwed up on the code base they started from for the second patch. I got the impression that the entire crying baby fix was absent.
Ambular:
Well, in all fairness, even with the minor puttering I do I know it can be annoyingly easy to lose track of which version of a file is stowed where, and what changes were made in which version...that being said, though, you'd think a bunch of people who do this sort of thing for a living would have some kind of procedural policy to minimize that kind of confusion.
Lorelei:
Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer
10. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
9. You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!
8. Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!
7. What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
6. Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
5. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment on his code!
3. Klingon software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those features are too sophisticated for a Romulan pig like you to understand.
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1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
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