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[Hasan-I]

So jealous that you got to play together. Me and a friend have tried pvp and co-op and have absolutely no luck. Can't even get him to join a locked, custom game!

[Axe99]

AntinOz, on 25 November 2014 - 04:33 AM, said:

To be fair though, the games themselves have become a whole lot more complex and the variety of systems that you need to support have also become more varied and complex.  When I was coding in the '80s I could maintain the entire memory map of the system in my head and I only had to support Monochrome and CGA.

Also, the skills required have gone from those of one or two developers working on a title to a large team, even in the hundreds, and it is more like a movie production than a software development exercise.

Agreed, and quality issues tend to be more frequent at the changeover to a new generation when the scale of the production tends to jump forward a bit, and QA/management scramble to adjust.  One of my favourite studios, Paradox, has substantially improved its QA as its games have become more complex, after a decade or so of releasing very buggy games, just because everything came together that allowed them to release games after enough QA.

That said, I do think the internet has removed some of the pressure for QA on management - I remember buggy game launches from 15 years ago with software that was far simpler than that today, just because even though it was only a team you could count on one hand, they clearly didn't build effective QA into their development processes, and they were happy patching post-release, while there are games that released in the last year with teams of over a hundred that were fine at launch.

[Doomystic]

Hasan-I, on 25 November 2014 - 08:22 AM, said:

So jealous that you got to play together. Me and a friend have tried pvp and co-op and have absolutely no luck. Can't even get him to join a locked, custom game!

I'll give it a crack bro, with my wireless 4 g internet my speed is better than it was! Goes to show how shitty the ADSL is up here

[ctrlaltdel]

platinum this game last night. still got 30% more to complete kyrat.

[Saintsy]

Doomystic, on 25 November 2014 - 09:05 PM, said:

with my wireless 4 g internet my speed is better than it was!

Not like it could get any worse lol

[Saintsy]

[Doomystic]

That is so true!

[WalrusKing]

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