We cut the test team in half at work, without changing the schedule.
We are BUSY.
Two of my co-workers decided to spend the last two weeks re-writing tests that already work 100% of the time, in a new framework that isn’t linked into our automation or our reporting systems, instead of the overflowing basket of new tasks related to code that actually changed in this release.
Let’s just say they have cemented my feelings that we let go the wrong people.
I found the intense pressuring they’ve been doing on World 0f Warcraft, to convert accounts to battle.net, very annoying. Not least because battle.net has traditionally been a black hole of suck. I suspected it was all part of a nefarious scheme on Blizz’s part, and their actions with Starcraft II have only re-inforced that opinion.
In the world Blizz envisions, I guess no one ever has a LAN party that doesn’t have a 1gbit connection to the internet, which is fucking stupid. If you only have dial-up, like literally millions of gamers, you can’t have your friends over to play a game, even though everyone has a fully paid copy. Yeah, that totally sounds like the grassroots growth that made the first Starcraft a success. I sure as hell won’t buy a copy until someone has cracked that stupid part, which is probably before the game itself is even released. Morons.