Load screens are "Seamless transitions" ?

Elong · March 2016

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Ghost-Shot wrote: »

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

I feel there are too many forum moderators and too little engineers at ZOS.

Either that or the forum moderators do their job while the engineers don't.

Yes because fixing code is the same thing as writing a short paragraph describing the rules.

That's exactly what he's saying, clearly they have too many forum mods and those resources should go to additional/more competent engineers.

Im wondering if you understand that forum mods have far less of a salary than engineers. Most likely for every one engineer's salary they can hire 10 forum moderators. Also fixing problems isnt sometimes as easy as people think. Finding the problem is the easy part 99% of the time. Limited budgets mean things get prioritized.

In a world with unlimited budgets you might be right. That isnt reality tho. The only unrestrained spending is at the government level.

Poor ZOS the indie developer with their low-budget indie MMO that was created in a few years of time.

Noone says they have an indie type budget. Its not an unlimited budget tho.

They had enough to spend money on John Cleese doing a speaking part but can't fix the lag.

vamp_emily · March 2016

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Yeah is there a rule somewhere for the Devs that bugs should be fixed within a certain time of discovery? Or that tooltips should be edited to reflect what a skill actually does or doesn't do? Or are we the only ones that have to follow rules?

I was given a project that was already past due. Everyone was testing it as I was trying to develop it.

Well, the owners of the company called me into the office and asked: "Is there somewhere in the Programmers manual that says create errors for job security."

I felt kind of bad but they owners should have never been testing it at that time.

Maybe the ESO developers are creating bugs for job security

zyk · March 2016

Coders who want job security write great code but omit comments.

In my experience, the performance of coders has a lot to do with how they are managed.

I don't blame the coders. I blame the executives at ZOS who make the decision to release updates which they know have serious issues. Leaders like that surely impose unrealistic deadlines on their coding teams. Even if there is dysfunction within the coding teams, it is the responsibility of the leaders to identify and resolve the issues.