Double Maintenance Again This Week

Why, how often do you guys fire people because they let a bug go live?

Oh god please no. Please test this patch before deployment!

Well it's gamebreaking to me. I'm losing 3.6% of my total cunning on my operative healer. Some of us see this as a pretty big deal.

Same for me guess I will unsub and wait for the finished product.

rarely (3 people last year)

because we test it. internal test, special department test and client test (on a server that's actually a (small) copy of the live server). and the client signs an agreement that the new version is ok and then, and only then, the new version is sent to the live servers.

sometimes, and only a few people are allowed to, hotfixes (or improvements) are sent directly on the live servers for various reasons. those people are usually not in the position of getting their heads chopped off. those people don't make changes to the code unless they are 100% foolproof. not that many people get to that position.

just a gist.

[edit] P.S. don't get me wrong, bugs happen. it's just that such an obvious bug, no matter if is a minor bug, a major bug or a critical bug, is unacceptable to pass through the tough tests. and say what you will, this is an OBVIOUS bug (just open the char tab).

Of course there are. Even if there's just 1% of the total subscriber base that's still (based on the latest 1.3M number) 13,000. Programmers and DB admins are no longer rare as they were ten years ago.

I dont understand how a company lets gross incompetence like this keep happening

I run a multi national construction company and work all over the USA and Canada.

I have had a whole crew screw up, fired them all, replaced them all the next day and still have the job done.

This is an employers market with massive amount of skilled ppl looking, begging for work and alot of them are good, alot suck.

Fire the people who cannot manage, code, anticipate problems and replace them. nuff said

If coding is wrong, due to careless coding, fire the coder, replace them
If coding is wrong, due to mis-direction by management, fire the manger, replace them or promote competent ppl
If coding is wrong due to improper development and implication, fire developers, replace them

Some times you need to clean sweep a board and start fresh

But ffs quit letting **** happen each week.

Like ppl have said, PTS is ther for a reason with a vast amount of FREE labor to TEST this **** prior to live.

Firing people is a little extreme...but I do think they need to revisit their process. It's one thing to occasionally introduce a new major bug (and I consider gear disappearing to be a major bug) or for your patch notes to be inaccurate. You can't ever completely eliminate bugs.

But to have it happen every patch and every week is just sloppy.

So unlike the guy above me, I don't think "heads need to roll". I do think they need to sit down in a conference room and go over their release process to figure out what's going wrong and how to fix it, if they haven't done so already.

and even more, it's not so unheard off IT "peeps" to like games... most of them started this path by playing computer games and 1) tweaking their computer to make the game run better, 2) creating applications to cheat

i know, i was hexa editing HOMM 2 saves to gimme resources and experience, as well as tweaking my PC and OS to make Carmageddon run on a poor Cyrix processor...

(Z)ERO Engine FTL!

TES Online is doomed! I wonder if it's too late to back out of that deal?