06-01-2012, 04:25 PM
(06-01-2012, 09:37 AM)smegged Wrote: As a programmer I can attest to the fact that no matter what form of software development is going on, there are countless permuatations of posssibilities to use your software that you simply just don't think of. People have the idea that game developers know exactly how their game will be used but the truth of the matter is that thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of users will be able to dredge up bugs that exploit the corners of your code that you had forgotten even existed. Most people can only think of around 7 things at one time. Games these days have millions of lines of code. Even extremely well developed software has bugs in it.
As a programmer, I'm glad people here tend to understand that, unlike the official forums, where everyone wants things fixed now, and perfectly.
Even though I've only been a "professional" software engineer for a few years, I now have quite a bit more patience with game developers. After a few launches of any software product, you learn that there's always something that happens that just didn't come up in testing.
I'm glad this place is still the same as I remember it from years back.