As a US taxpayer I feel obliged to apologize to you for the fact that your public education was substandard. But, do the rest of us a favor, please stop advertising it.
This is my new favorite burn on multiple levels. +1'd
> 10:15 p.m. PDT: We believe we’ve found a fix for the gold duplication bug and will be deploying it shortly to all regions. In order to implement this fix, we'll be bringing Diablo III into maintenance. We anticipate this maintenance will last for approximately 1 hour, lasting until approximately 11:30 p.m. PDT.
So we're not counting SimCity failing to work for long periods of time and when it did it had half hour queues or more (assuming you didn't get booted after the wait). A game which had at lest one main feature removed becuase their online system couldn't even handle it.
That game never really got off the ground. This was a patch that effectively nuked in 2 hours, an economy that had been built over the last full year of a live game.
Or maybe even Neverwinter who's crashed several times this week and has a website so full of bugs that not only does it not complete crafating but fails to reward players their in game currencies that are vital to its economy (and will probably not be refunded to players)? Not to mention that outcry people have about their pricing practices.
It's in beta? This is a live release? How can you compare the two?
Or what about the recent Farcry 3 Blood Dragon leak that happened on Ubisoft's own website where it was found weeks before launch and may have crippled it's online sales?
All this compared to gold in diablo.. which lost its gold value.. got caught and stopped fast and is taking steps to repair the damage done? Gold losing its value is the WORST multiplayer issue ever? I do not comprehend this logic. Granted that last one wasn't a "multiplayer game" issue but it does show that far worse mistakes have been made than a economic crash in a game where the devs want players to move away from the AH anyway. Just sayin'
Unintended consequence, live game, small part of the patch, completely annihilated the economy, and had real world dollar impact. If you can name me another that has those qualities, let me know.
Not sure if you were aware but Jay is on other projects now and wouldn't have been the one working on this part of the game. Honestly I can agree that it was an easy thing to miss, but my guess is because it was added last second (this didn't show up on any ptr tests that I'm aware of) that it was just missed by pure accident.
I was pretty much just speculating on them picking a fall guy. If I was management, there are few other "names" in the D3 staff that would get the company more mileage by canning. At least, from a PR standpoint.
As a software developer, here's an inside secret for you guys: QA is really hard.
I totally disagree. They only changed 1 thing on the AH. 1 thing. That thing clearly failed it's smoke test.
The person who wrote the smoke test and didn't account for this scenario should be fired.
Lack of transaction amount verification in the app should get the lead developer/designer fired as well.
Since this is a long string of fumbled balls, I'd be shocked to not see someone in Senior Management fall on their sword. Guessing Jay Wilson, given how Corporate already knows hes an unliked persona whose departure would cool a lot of people down who are going to quit over this.
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This is my new favorite burn on multiple levels. +1'd
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> 10:15 p.m. PDT: We believe we’ve found a fix for the gold duplication bug and will be deploying it shortly to all regions. In order to implement this fix, we'll be bringing Diablo III into maintenance. We anticipate this maintenance will last for approximately 1 hour, lasting until approximately 11:30 p.m. PDT.
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I'll take that bet, name the stakes!
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That game never really got off the ground. This was a patch that effectively nuked in 2 hours, an economy that had been built over the last full year of a live game.
It's in beta? This is a live release? How can you compare the two?
Again that game wasn't live yet.
Unintended consequence, live game, small part of the patch, completely annihilated the economy, and had real world dollar impact. If you can name me another that has those qualities, let me know.
I was pretty much just speculating on them picking a fall guy. If I was management, there are few other "names" in the D3 staff that would get the company more mileage by canning. At least, from a PR standpoint.
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I totally disagree. They only changed 1 thing on the AH. 1 thing. That thing clearly failed it's smoke test.
The person who wrote the smoke test and didn't account for this scenario should be fired.
Lack of transaction amount verification in the app should get the lead developer/designer fired as well.
Since this is a long string of fumbled balls, I'd be shocked to not see someone in Senior Management fall on their sword. Guessing Jay Wilson, given how Corporate already knows hes an unliked persona whose departure would cool a lot of people down who are going to quit over this.
They won't rollback.
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Not sure what to say other than this seems like the worst mistake I can remember in online gaming, like...ever.
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Don't believe the Unity can roll IAS + CD