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This ongoing trend of "gamification" is starting to drive me up the wall. Seems like some brainiac in marketing won some battle to sink their claws into the VS
by shaggyfrog 15y ago
This ongoing trend of "gamification" is starting to drive me up the wall. Seems like some brainiac in marketing won some battle to sink their claws into the VS team. And I feel bad for them, because I'd hope they'd want to be spending their team actually improving VS (which is still an excellent IDE) instead of adding a layer of crapola lipstick.
What next -- achievements for the taskbar?
- contextfree 15y agoThis was not done by the VS team. It is an extension developed by members of the Channel 9 team inspired by this post on someone's blog -> http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/ http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-... , and the associated Reddit thread.
- shaggyfrog 15y agoMy mistake, then. And thank goodness. Full ignominy goes to those guys, then.
- dman 15y agoThis is a great way of driving people out of teams with poor code quality.
- DanBC 15y agoThere's a similar problem with games and achievements. The parody game "achievement unlocked" is a pretty good take on it. (http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked)