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Love the game and think SC development i great but it has to be said:
"If you dont budget correctly for proper testing this is exactly the kind of issues you will face'
Hopefully a lesson has been learned and more budget and value is given to testing in the future.
Of course its possible, its called load testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by KL597
Good stuff OP!!! You seem to really get it. It's strange to me that gamers can get so upset over this. I guess they forget how many times they have been burned way worse than this!!! The XBOX One launch was a complete failure, the console itself absolutely failed it's audience and continues to do so! Literally EVERY SINGLE Microsoft Windows operating system has been riddled with bugs upon the lunch of each installment. People's cable goes out, massive areas across the world are effected and at times devestated by electrical blackouts, banks lose billions of dollars each year to fraud, and their customers are out if luck. These are all examples that have required major monetary investment or have caused real life complications for those depending on "billion dollar companies" as someone worded it previously. Give it a rest people. So there are complications! Are you gonna lose your wife, kids, parents, friends, job, car, house, etc? Most of the people complaining about this, reserve no right to gripe! They are often the ones who haven't spent a single cent on this game. Entitlement is quickly destroying the upcoming generations (13-35). The world owes you nothing! For those of us who have spent our hard earned money on the game we love, to still complain like this, is down right dispicable. God forbid a game that doesn't affect real life or the real world, even to those of us who are very dedicated, has some bugs for a few days after launch! The fact that SC has already done a maintenance break to begin addressing issues, and continues asking us directly for info concerning our problems, is more than above the call of duty. You wouldn't see anything like that from those so called "billion dollar companies".....
I missed the announcement where this was in BETA mode, do you have a link?Quote:
Originally Posted by SSofJetlife
It's fine if people complain, this company gets paid multi-millions to billions of dollars literally to maintain a 2-D game. Compare it to other online games such as world or warcraft or others, this game is very low maintenance that its a joke you guys are thanking a company that only needs to do little to "fix" things. Not to add negativity to supercell you guys are great but it's the truth.
Supercell have <200 staff...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aresflowne
Perhaps they should consider employing a few more?Quote:
Originally Posted by KL597
Dont get me wrong I love the feature but this release is poor. I can understand the 'cut them some slack' mentality if it were a school project or something put together on a shoestring budget but that simpley isnt the case.
Just because they earn so much doesn't necessarily mean they have to expand as a company... I'll put this in: Posted by Kendra (Hopefully she won't mind)Quote:
Originally Posted by VincentVegas
There is no way to test an update - without shutting down ALL the servers, yes they are tested on alternate servers before released. These are not the game servers, therefore there is no way of knowing what will happen when it hits all the servers and all players log on. I imagine the server traffic yesterday was through the roof. SC knew this would happen, and the maintenance that happened roughly 11 hrs ago- was actually 3am. Helsinki time, which means - the situation was being monitored.
Hmm, I can't find it either where this is officially a beta release. It certainly *feels* like a beta, or even early alpha so I get where some might suggest that we are indeed in beta testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by VincentVegas
All I know is last time the Project Management and the QA department at the company I work for screwed up an upgrade roll out this bad, there ended up being a lot of people that are no longer with the company.
I beg to differ, there are plenty of methods of load testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by KL597
You are right tho they do not need to expand but the consequences of not doing so results in poor user experience. If you continue to release software that gives a poor user experience the results will be that your users will reduce.
I think the games great and the clan wars is great idea, its just a shame the release is buggy and I maintain these bugs could have been caught in a better test phase.