Fundamental Attribution Error

From Kill Ten Rats.

What kinds of idiots are making these games, eh? They can’t seem to put together a world with a thousand-plus players at a time each with dozens of items and skills interacting with tens of thousands of NPCs and other objects, dynamically and in real time with a playerbase across several continents using a range of hardware with a random pastiche of software, duplicated across dozens of servers scattered across the country or world and dependent on an international communications network entirely beyond their control. NOOBS!

There are only a dozen classes each with a half-dozen specializations that each vary in value across different circumstances that may vary in abundance and prominence across the levels, in solo or group play, in groups of different sizes, or in PvE and PvP. I swear, there is a conspiracy to keep my class down, with the way that everyone else gets money hats while I get nerfed every patch. l2balance NOOBS!

It’s not like they have dozens of people working with a sprawling code base where a mistake or typo can be multiplied in effect across the entire game. Every other workplace in the world has perfect documentation of all changes and accurately predicts the third-order effects of what are ostensibly small changes to the way some operations are calculated on the back end. It’s like you NOOBS are trying to ruin the game!

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As an MMO dev myself, I lol'd.

Preach it reverend! Did someone rub you the wrong way?

lol

Clearly the blogger would be better suited for the job than pro's...clearly.

Sounds like something I'd say when miffed at something.

Which MMO do you work on?

"I swear, there is a conspiracy to keep my class down, with the way that everyone else gets money hats while I get nerfed every patch. l2balance NOOBS!"

^Agreeing with that, *** you SAM. SE needs to boost DRK a bit too.

I can't believe this, but I actually agree with you.

lol. It's been awhile since I've read a good bit of satire. Surely the "Devs" deserve a pat on the back once in awhile for making it all ... work... albeit piecemeal at some points. So cuts em some slack, and then fugeddaboutit.


/goes back to sipping his milk from a dirty glass

I think he's been working on this one.

Oh lord... I hope not :|