Shadowmaster wrote: »

clear there is no unit testing in place either

Lol, I won't even mention unit testing. I'm a hobbyist programmer off and on over the years. I never complete a project since I get so hung up on one little part being bug-free and unit tested. Nothing gets done. Those programmers don't work at ZOS. They work at NASA or the NSA or they make missile guidance systems. They write software that controls X-ray machines' radiation levels. Their software kills people when there are bugs. They have redundant software that sanity checks input and output and stops execution and throws exception when someone might die. So they are capable programmers and don't work in video games.

I mean, do we even have a color-blindness mode for ESO? I mean, can we put a toggle in the options menu that will write the color level of weapons and armor in parenthesis on the item cards and inventory lists for those that can't distinguish the colors?

No? Well since the devs don't care about accessibility issues, then I can't imagine we are going to the trouble of unit testing every function. Lol! Standards be darned (I avoid cussing so as not to be censored). I'm not even color blind, but am aware the need for accommodation modes in software.

We can't even fix the kerning on the Russian font in this game! Lol! And that's just a big bitmap and some coordinates to go with each letter!!!! It's like they were lazy and used fixed width font texture, but cannot use whitespace size that goes with it! S o m y s e n t e n c e l o o k s l i k e t h i s.

I never had a game crash in ESO for like three months of playing. Then I hit CP level, and my game crashes three times in a day. Not a crash to desktop. Like the ZOS crash handler popped up every time. So they went to the trouble of throwing an exception all the way to the top of the stack to be handled by default exception handler. Which was to present some dialog to email stack dump to ZOS. As if that means anything to anyone. As if someone is going to load that into their debugger and come to some useful conclusion. Lol!

The CP code paths may be buggy. I truly never had a game crash until my first character hit CP levels, and then they were "graceful" crashes that invoked default ZOS exception handler.

Well onward and upward. I like the game a lot. I hope my posts since I'm new to the forum have made some people at ZOS think and do some self-reflection. I elaborated in another post this "more time to browse facebook" rant. I elaborated more on that thread today today while I was having my third beer during my 1.5 hour long lunch break that I covered by lying about testing in my time sheets! Lol! But I get to do that without breaking my clients' networks. Thanks to a helpful team.

I question the situation at ZOS. I realize the management are overwhelmed with the issue. They need to come up with incentive programs. Bug bounties. Etc. Internal things as simple as lunches and gift cards as employees compete to make the best game possible.

X days since we screwed up a bug fix we thought we fixed. Hang up in break room. Lol!