KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.03.19 11:48:00 -
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anaboop wrote: --- snip Updates bad with dumb example of Rail Gun slow motion Nerf --- There is plenty of evidence that CCP/Shanghai is lacking in demonstrative skill sets for any software development much less game development.
Adding your requirement of one minor thing at a time would mean that we would need to play Dust for decades. Why? Because each test will take a week. Do the math. Not gonna happen.
As far as the low level of professionalism they lack decent QA, the product does not spew bug logs, even as an option and possibly not even on developer systems for QA. That is evident if you have ever tried to establish a problem with [email protected]. No, they have to match your setup, get into a battle and see for themselves what is happening. Dude/dudette you should be able to get that information in a text file. Really.
They have released into the wild items that were only for developer consumption. The release trigger was pulled and the Pilot Drop Suit variant was in the system. Documented with, luckily, no way to buy it. So just a portion of it got out. A proper system designed by software developers that knew what a release system is and how it should work never would have let that happen. It is just one example.
And the best one is about releasing a new product after months of Beta on a different product? That is not portray genius level thinking here.
The tendency to deliver Day 1 OP weapons might well be part of the business model, driving more SP/ISK/AUR use, but it more likely that they truly don't understand the problems they are presenting to their customers.
The fixes that happen between patches have gotten better. A significant portion of them used to fail or took much longer to actually get the system running once again.
Some improvement has happened. But they are very slow about getting to a proper release cycle.
Many of these balance issues could be solved or at least make very clear with a proper API. Let us see what the most effective weapon is, the average number of bullets fired by that weapon and the average number of rounds required to kill various suits. An OP will pop to the top, even New Berries would be able to see it as an issue.
* And the RG example was just a sideways attack that I disagree with.
And so it goes.
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