job position as dev

[Zotamedu]

Anyone who blames the 'devs' doesn't know the first thing about how software development is done in the real world :P

Start with Program/Product Managers and work your way up to the CEO -- that's where the blame usually belongs. If it truly was up to the software development team, products would rarely ever ship as they would either be trying to add 'one more feature' or fix 'one more bug'. Sadly, its management/accountants/marketing that is pushing for an earlier and earlier release (often even when the development team says it isn't ready).

Well they can't really be under that much pressure considering the snails pace they are working at. Remember when they first started talking about PvP? That was years ago. It took them 10 days to sort of solve the problems with the explorer weeks and they deployed it on even more servers even though they had a weeks worth of bug reports telling them it was broken. This is from a simple multiplication of 0.8. They could have just reverted it and spent some time fixing it before deploying it again but no. Lets spread the bugs. Their solution to that particular bug actually caused a new bug when they ended explorer week so there was even more problems. Again, all they were doing was multiplying with 0.8. Considering the production time of everything and the amount of bugs, I'd say that the actual developers are incompetent. Then they in turn are bossed around by more incompetence which makes it even worse.

Maybe we should aim SETI at the BB office but it seems like they have better luck finding intelligent life scanning empty space.

[CrazyBat]

I think this game is side project of the company and no one really cares about it that much.