Maybe I'm just being cruel now, but check out these hotfixes from Warhammer:
- Players will no longer be able to remove the effects of a Stagger by right clicking its icon.
- Tentacle Pies now properly stack to 20 and will no longer vanish upon zoning or relogging.
That first bug is serious. Stagger is part of the big crowd control re-vamp they launched about a month ago. When you stagger an enemy in PvP they're stunned for several seconds, a big tactical advantage. Except for the bug, of course, where the smart player could just click away the debuff. That bug must have been live for at least four weeks.
The second bug is not too big a deal; tentacle pies are some sort of toy item, maybe linked to an event or something. On the other hand they had an inventory item disappearing from a character's inventory every time your character changed zones! For weeks! Don't they notice?
MMOs are big complex software products. They have bugs. Good MMOs have significant testing: automated tests, careful testing from the QA department, early launches on test servers and a good pipeline from customer service to the engineers via a bug database. Despite that all MMOs have bugs, of course. But somehow Warhammer's seem much more fundamental.
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