Quote:Speaking of the importance of beta testers; CCP, who do all the internal testing for EVE Online internally with about 6 staff for testers, released an update for EVE which eats XP's boot.ini file. Can't have too many testers. WoW has 9 million of them and still don't catch everything:)
When I read that on various forums (and later frontpage news on some news sites) I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The immenseness of errors is staggering.
#1: Naming one of your application's files the same as a key OS file is NOT DONE amongst developers.
#2: Deleting a file, any file, should not be handled bluntly with a 'delete aaaa.bbb -noconfirmdialog' command, but with a proper installer.
#3: Passing this through Q&A. How could they? Do they all run Vista over there? (Vista doesn't use boot.ini).
Luckily Eve isn't wow, or else one would be as if a million mouths cry out in pain!
(ps. WAR is coming!)
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