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True, but it is also the price to pay when you use technology. You can't test everything. The TV, for example, is a new model from a big, quality brand (and in
by meuk 9y ago
True, but it is also the price to pay when you use technology. You can't test everything. The TV, for example, is a new model from a big, quality brand (and in general it works well). Likewise, Call of Duty (the game that requires internet even if you play offline - not sure if this holds for all games in the series) is not a small title. So if these products by big companies have that shitty engineering, then most products with the same functionality probably will have similar problems.
- TomMarius 9y agoFrom what I've seen while working for large companies, the problem is most likely incompetence and/or quality not being a priority.
- acdha 9y agoIt’s important not to excuse the business decisions behind that incompetence: someone knew about the problem and figured you’d buy it anyway because of marketing or everyone else cutting the same corners.
- TomMarius 9y agoAgain, from my personal experience, most of the time the decision maker doesn't know there is a problem or that it could possibly be improved.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoOr rather "fixing the problem would take time and money. Nah, just ship it."
- TomMarius 9y agoNot really. Usually the developers and mid managers are doing this to themselves, they say something like "we can't tell him or he will fire us" and the decision maker is not aware of any problems. What happens when I step in is that I tell them what problems do they really have and most of the time the decision maker really wants to fix them and isn't going to fire anyone (except for the incompetent mid-managers that caused these issues).