Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o...
by ryandrake on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:13PM
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Yea, if it was a 6 month old bug or it was a hard to repro edge case, then sure it’s embarrassing. Oops! But years long, and highly visible/reproducible, without correcting? That’s veering into shameful.
Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o...
by s1artibartfast on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:04PM
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Blame should always flow up, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other causes. For all we know there has been a team of devs putting their kids through college “working” on this for years.
This bug existed for a very long time and was the #1 outcry from gamers. It is well documented all over the internet.
Every company I’ve ever worked at and every code base I’ve ever worked on would have made this a #1 priority. If it were a technical limitation of the devs I would agree it is “embarrassing” but this was not outside of their ability.
I simply don’t blame the devs, I blame management. Management should have allocated the resources to fix this truly game breaking bug but they didn’t because money was still flowing. Is it any coincidence that ads played during the 6+ minutes you would wait to get into a game?