Finding, root causing, and fixing bugs therefore costs lots and lots of money. That's an interesting avenue to explore, but it's an aside from my point that insulting the devs (who probably aren't the ones making decisions about QA or release schedules) undermines a relationship speedrunners could have with the developer community. So in some ways, those bugs become a part of the culture. > Now some games may have intentionally copied common bugs for style reasons etc, but more often titles are just rushed out with many known bugs and or vastly insufficient QA. I'm also surprised to hear you describe the devs of Doom as 'incompetent', given their widespread praise in the engineering community, specifically for their code. I'd strongly hesitate before labeling someone incompetent because their linear algebra didn't quite do vector math correctly in every case. They may have been aware of the issue and chose to fix other, more pressing bugs first. Heck, a lot of players will feel quite clever for discovering and using abilities like that in a game.įixing bugs like that require not fixing other bugs. It's also one that doesn't impact core gameplay for most people. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Yes, that's a common issue (though typically you had to push against a wall), and it's an issue that still occurs in games today. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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