or at least this patch reminds me of the pain I had when I installed Windows Me.
So I wasted my time to install 7gb of patch, then I ran it, got some quests around Magni. Then I got sent to some kind of a scenario, killed some mobs, blah blah. After deactivating some idiotic towers, my spells suddenly froze. My chat went to hell and no menu worked. In the end I had to Alt+F4 and then the game was written as “running” on the bnet agent for 10 freaking minutes.
I finally relogged, but the game won’t even let me back in the scenario. The loading screen is frozen at 0%… so here I am, stuck with a game that doesn’t work.
I am amazed that Blizzard can’t fix our favourite game so it’s worse than Win Me. Cmon guys, it isn’t rocket science.
Cmon, I just want to pass these quests so I can roll a stupid fox. After all, the only thing I deeply care about the latest patch is that I want a stupid fox toon so I can play it for the next 10 years!
Servers are having a few issue’s at the moment.
The cause of it, is unknown.
But seeing as the last 2 days everything went smoothly in that regard, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a DDOS attack going on at the moment.
Oh they are not challenging Bethesda yet. I think Bethesda is on its own league. Most other ‘Bethesda level’ companies are bankrupt ages ago, but magic and mystery keeps Bethesda afloat with such level of ‘lol’.
I don’t think this is the programmer’s fault. Typically it goes something like:
shareholders pressure management
managers pressure head positions of each division, quest design for instance is one
members of the teams say that it’s unrealistic to do what they want in time so they have to typically cut out features and spend less time on fixing and testing stuff
QA was hit by the layoffs and now we get new AH that did not pass testing by QA, or we get PTR where raid testing can’t be done because boss doesn’t even work.
after todays hotfix all mob spawns and drop rates got extremely worse… i spent 25 min running in circles in a grp of 5 trying to get acolytes that then did not drop the quest item…
…for 75rep
lets not talk avout the 4 rare kills on both zones or the elite mob spawn in uldum which is horrible also
its an absurd amount of time and flying around for such low rep
The post above mentioning shareholders got me intrigued, so i checked a little…turns out Act.Blizzard is 90%+ owned by various mutual funds, pension funds, an investment bank…the worst kind of owners.
I would humbly suggest an activist campaign to take place at their next annual shareholder meeting with the aim of presenting a case against continued downsizing of the staff in search of the last dime they think they can squeeze out of someone’s contract.
Like seriously, if players don’t do something, nothing will change. Not with such owners.
Ok cool looking forward to seeing your Portfolio of examples of programing hash tables, component-Based Entity update & rendering, camera project and picking, influence maps, A* pathfinding and behaviour trees (all the necessary programming techniques for game development). oh you don’t have any? Shut up then.
Not sure how rushed this patch was since shadowlands is right near the door( and yes in programmer terms one year is right near the door for a development). But please blizzard Don’t rush Shadowlands if It is agreed that it’s not ready and properly developed, don’t be like certain companies (cof* bethesda cof*).
I don’t need to know any of these. Just as when I go to pizza, I may not know how the cook prepares it. But I know very well what a delicious pizza means.
Same goes with software. I know when a program is buggy and needs more work. Windows Me crashed all the time and it badly sucked, for example. Linux ruled back in those days.
Anyone else experiencing major lag spikes and screen freeze-ups if they idle in Boralus for a while then open a menu screen ?
…or when Turalyon’s voicebox pops up at different points in the Stromgarde WF ?
Yet another thread that people have no idea what are they talking about.
read from this post onwards: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2532142-Blizzard-Employees-quot-Activision-prevents-us-from-developing-WoW-content-quot?p=52030530&viewfull=1#post52030530
from the guy named Factsbeforefeelings