04-19-2006, 09:04 AM
I put my betting money on this as the real reason:
There are other interesting and somewhat contrary theories. Such as that something internal at Blizz is blocking them to do the final tweaking on Ahn'Qiraj. The whole dungeon has seen tuning and tweaking up until the Twin Emperors. Then it mysteriously stopped. Assumptions go for manpower is withdrawn to work on the expansion, or E3 is looming ahead and they (Blizz) want to complete Naxxramas in time to deliver a good show.
Jagermaestro Wrote:As someone that over the past 8 years has worked QA on over 10 shipped titles, and as a Sofware Engineer on 3 shipped titles, I can tell you from my experience that probably about 99.99% of the bugs that make it into a shipped game are found by QA; they just aren't fixed for various reasons including "it's not severe enough", "the fix is too high risk", or my personal favourite "very few people will encounter this bug (but those that do will be severely #$%&ed by it)". [...]Direct link.
There are other interesting and somewhat contrary theories. Such as that something internal at Blizz is blocking them to do the final tweaking on Ahn'Qiraj. The whole dungeon has seen tuning and tweaking up until the Twin Emperors. Then it mysteriously stopped. Assumptions go for manpower is withdrawn to work on the expansion, or E3 is looming ahead and they (Blizz) want to complete Naxxramas in time to deliver a good show.
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm!