Helen Baque
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Posted - 2006.03.06 16:24:00 -
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 Originally by: Brungar
Hmmm. If this is ALWAYS the case, shouldn't this also make one think? And not just about the nature of those posters?
Quite simply, no. There have always been lots of people who believed that...
... an all-powerful, all-knowing invisible man in the sky made everything
........ and he needs your money :-)
... let's get on this crowded elevator before other passengers have gotten off!
... there were WMDs found in Iraq
... let's drink huge amounts of liquor and drive home!
... those witches should be burned
... Seeing milk producing organs on TV is bad for children
........ now put Walker, Texas Ranger back on! Look at that roundhouse kick! :-)
... those homosexuals should be jailed
... evolved from apes? nonsense!
........ now siddown and shaddup up before i hit you again!
... that uppity Rosa Parks girl should sit in the back of the bus
... hey! i have the RIGHT to smoke where you have to breathe my poison!
... the Earth is clearly flat, just look around
... et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam
Many people believe whatever nonsense is fashionable at any given time. Lots of people believing something is not an indicator that it's true or a good idea. On the contrary, if a lot of people believe in X, you need to start looking for superficially sensible but profound flaws with X.
The simple fact is this: There is NO WAY to thoroughly test MMORPG patches prior to release. You can test a lot of stuff in those patches, but the live environment and the test environment are different, and thus you can't test for stuff that only comes up in the live environment. There are lots of things in the world that work just fine until lots of people try to use them all at once. Roads and elevators spring to mind as a good analogy for network programming.
The obvious fix would be to increase the population on the test servers to match the population of the live servers, but that's not up to CCP. (Well, CCP could shut down the live servers a week prior to the patch or something to encourage people to sign on to SiSi, but that's not all that different from just deploying the damn thing.)
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Helen Baque
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