Where the WyldB Roams » eve-online http://www.wyldb.net/BsBlog Whatever It Takes Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:45:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 When a game patch goes completely wrong http://www.wyldb.net/BsBlog/2007/12/game-patch/ http://www.wyldb.net/BsBlog/2007/12/game-patch/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:59:05 +0000 Bill http://whois.wyldb.net/blog/?p=4 To be a Dev for an online game has got to be extremely high stress when you feel very confident that your updates for the new expansion runs very smooth all the way through the final days of testing each item of the new expansion to make sure there’s no glitches. Only to realize that the worst ever glitches went totally unnoticed by the team, the very day the new expansion goes live to tens of thousands of clients. It really doesn’t matter what game this happened to cause all online games tend have have their massive screw-ups upon release of an update and or release of a new expansion to the game with tons of new content. I’ll have to say that this new recent adventure within my realm of the gaming world has taken the cake on massive screw-ups. The game makers meant to remove a file from it’s install folder after installing the latest expansion for the game, but instead it removed a very crucial file from the root directory of the operating system, thus causing that computer not to boot to the operating system after it was rebooted, and since we’ve all been taught or embeded in our brains that after you update a piece of software or install new software it’s best to reboot your computer, many many people were very upset with this particular game Dev’s.

Congratz Devs and to the Entire Bug Tracking Team!

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