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But if that's true, then there's even less excuse for not fixing the bug because it would imply at least one person knew the slow loads were caused by loading a

• Verdex 3y ago
  Maybe, but not necessarily. The devs may even have been begging to fix it, but project management kept prioritizing other items in the backlog. If there's a million fires and half of those crash the game, fixing something like a load time might easily stay under the radar. And that's even before we consider internal political issues. The code could have been owned by a group that was refusing any PRs that would have fixed the issue. Or maybe the code was written by the big boss' nephew and fixing it would have removed his contribution.
  • charles_f 3y ago
    Yeah there's definitely a scenario where the guideline was "let's hit the deadline, we'll fix it after"