Priest
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Disclaimer: I went to school and studied programming, although right now I'm not in the computer industry.
I usually post something like this on every board that I'm on, I guess now is the time for this board. Have you ever noticed that the computer gaming industry is sooooo different than the rest of the world. That is, things happen in the computer gaming industry that are considered normal, that if it happened in the real world you would be sued or reported to the Distict Attorney for fraud. Not only that if you even mention these oddities your the one one that's considered to be wierd or a trouble maker (I fully expect to get flamed for this post). So without further adu let's begin our journey through Computer games bizaaroworld.
1. The fact that computer games are knowingly sold incomplete or just don't work at all. Fresh out of the box most games need to be patched, not only to fix obvious problems, but, in the case of some games just to get them to run at all. So you sit there sometimes for months (in the case of SFP1 a year) until the maker of the program comes up (hopefully) with a patch that will get the program running or fixed something that should have been fixed before the game shipped. Now. I know that there are things that gamers do with these programs that can't be foreseen by the makers, but, there is the "known issues" thing.
2. Patches that patch previous patches, say that real fast three times. This is refering to patches that fix one "known issue" while creating another. For instance in HOI my editor ran fine then I upgraded to the next patch to fix another problem, guess what...the editor no longer worked. :argh: So, you call tech support and tell them that your editor no longer works and they "Yeah we know, that will be fixed in the next patch" ( please someone just shoot me now.)
3. Quality Control, if the game doesn't run what are these guys doing, just making a list of things that need patching once the game is released?
4. Using computer jargon on the 'hardware requirements' that only a technogeek would understand. For instance I have several programs that won't run on my computer because I didn't know that my Voodoo3 card wasn't TS3/4300 compliant (OK I made that up, but, you get the picture). Please...PLEASE use plain english on the box. If a program won't run on a Voodoo3 card say that on the box.
Well this is the end of my rant, there are other issues, but, this will do for now.
I usually post something like this on every board that I'm on, I guess now is the time for this board. Have you ever noticed that the computer gaming industry is sooooo different than the rest of the world. That is, things happen in the computer gaming industry that are considered normal, that if it happened in the real world you would be sued or reported to the Distict Attorney for fraud. Not only that if you even mention these oddities your the one one that's considered to be wierd or a trouble maker (I fully expect to get flamed for this post). So without further adu let's begin our journey through Computer games bizaaroworld.
1. The fact that computer games are knowingly sold incomplete or just don't work at all. Fresh out of the box most games need to be patched, not only to fix obvious problems, but, in the case of some games just to get them to run at all. So you sit there sometimes for months (in the case of SFP1 a year) until the maker of the program comes up (hopefully) with a patch that will get the program running or fixed something that should have been fixed before the game shipped. Now. I know that there are things that gamers do with these programs that can't be foreseen by the makers, but, there is the "known issues" thing.
2. Patches that patch previous patches, say that real fast three times. This is refering to patches that fix one "known issue" while creating another. For instance in HOI my editor ran fine then I upgraded to the next patch to fix another problem, guess what...the editor no longer worked. :argh: So, you call tech support and tell them that your editor no longer works and they "Yeah we know, that will be fixed in the next patch" ( please someone just shoot me now.)
3. Quality Control, if the game doesn't run what are these guys doing, just making a list of things that need patching once the game is released?
4. Using computer jargon on the 'hardware requirements' that only a technogeek would understand. For instance I have several programs that won't run on my computer because I didn't know that my Voodoo3 card wasn't TS3/4300 compliant (OK I made that up, but, you get the picture). Please...PLEASE use plain english on the box. If a program won't run on a Voodoo3 card say that on the box.
Well this is the end of my rant, there are other issues, but, this will do for now.