This forum is littered with literally dozens of threads bashing EA. The game is buggy, and we're all aware of that. It's buggy because releasing a game before adequate beta testing and debugging can be completed has become the gamedev community's norm. If they don't release the game as early as possible they are plagued with complaints about it taking so long, and the public steadily looses interest. So naturally, they release it prior to completion and bear the burden of debugging afterwards. Without realizing it, the gaming community has been largely responsible for with with their impatience.
So now that we're in the debugging state, complaints of bugs and gliches are plentiful. But does anybody realize how much work goes into locating and repairing a bug in a game this size? Once one bug is fixed, how many others are created by the changing of the code? Consider the amount of time spent building BF2, and how many people worked on it. Anyone who has ever written code of any sort will understand what I'm getting at.
Granted, the bugs suck. I'm not disagreeing with that in the least. However, I understand that it's not as simple as adding a semicolon on line 13,482, and the guys over at EA just don't have the motivation to add it. We, the gaming community initially created this problem through our impatience(although I will readily admit that there are times when it's driven by greed). Our impatience now while we wait for EA to fix the bugs solves nothing.
Contrary to popular belief the several thousands of EA hate threads do not quicken the process of troubleshooting the bugs.
Just my opinion.
So now that we're in the debugging state, complaints of bugs and gliches are plentiful. But does anybody realize how much work goes into locating and repairing a bug in a game this size? Once one bug is fixed, how many others are created by the changing of the code? Consider the amount of time spent building BF2, and how many people worked on it. Anyone who has ever written code of any sort will understand what I'm getting at.
Granted, the bugs suck. I'm not disagreeing with that in the least. However, I understand that it's not as simple as adding a semicolon on line 13,482, and the guys over at EA just don't have the motivation to add it. We, the gaming community initially created this problem through our impatience(although I will readily admit that there are times when it's driven by greed). Our impatience now while we wait for EA to fix the bugs solves nothing.
Contrary to popular belief the several thousands of EA hate threads do not quicken the process of troubleshooting the bugs.
Just my opinion.
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