Holy-War

Quoted from "LargeHuman"

Well apparently it's that time of year where GAS feels like they need more money, yet, can't do anything significant with this game.

Quoted from "LargeHuman"

Giving them a break or loosen up the slack would only give them a feeling of a sense of accomplishment, which would in fact put them back into hibernation

So, without further ado...

I'm still not impressed.

Also, major updates every 8 months or so is terrible

Quoted from "LargeHuman"

Well apparently it's that time of year where GAS feels like they need more money, yet, can't do anything significant with this game.

Just throw your money at them, making them pick up your currency is the most work they will have ever done for this game.

Quoted from "brianfoxy"

I am very happy with GA$ improvements. Also one of the few companies that the US gov didn't bail out thanks to the tixxers lower taxes for us.

Quoted from "LargeHuman"

The only person that i'll actually listen to in this thread is Falco, seeing as how he is the only person who is older than me game wise.

The rest of you can Jog Off

Plus, I enjoy taking pop shots at GAS, namely because I can.

If you don't like what I have to say, "you can leave"

Quoted from "death dancer"

Actually there are games which update and fix stuff often
Reign of Blood has already done two updates since i've started playing 19 days ago

Quoted from "falcotron"

Online service companies like Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Amazon are on 12-, 18-, or 24-month schedules.

Quoted from "illyrian"

Quoted from "falcotron"

Online service companies like Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Amazon are on 12-, 18-, or 24-month schedules.

You gotta be kidding me. Where did you pull this from? Since i have worked in one of them, and am currently working in another one on that list... i must say this is patently untrue.

Quoted from "Large Human"

Well apparently it's that time of year where GAS feels like they need more money, yet, can't do anything significant with this game

Quoted from "falcotron"

Quoted from "illyrian"

Quoted from "falcotron"

Online service companies like Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Amazon are on 12-, 18-, or 24-month schedules.

You gotta be kidding me. Where did you pull this from? Since i have worked in one of them, and am currently working in another one on that list... i must say this is patently untrue.

I got it from the people we worked with at those 4 companies that we were partnered with.

If we gave them a new release of our software to integrate, and it required them to change they way they use it (especially if it meant their customers might have to recompile plugins), we had to wait for the next major release. In practice, that meant we gave them specs as soon as we had them, and a prerelease well in advance of our beta, so they could get it into their schedule, so we only had to wait 3-4 months.

A new release of our software that could be integrated without the need for anything other than testing and minor config changes, on the other hand, could get rolled out with a minor release, which was 6 weeks to 3 months depending on the partner. (In Google's case, they actually did almost continuous single-change patches to the live system instead of having minor releases).

SaaS and other online companies do try to cram more into minor releases than traditional software companies usually do, and the fact that they don't have to market version numbers lets them blur the lines a bit further (like Yahoo, which effectively used internal scrum releases as minor releases, and dedicated every 8th scrum cycle to revisiting the past 7 cycles' changes and looking at updates to third-party software, and called that a major release). But as far as the timing and scheduling goes, major vs. minor really isn't much different from traditional companies.

Quoted from "illyrian"

However, you said that online companies are on a 12months to 24 months schedules. That effectively means that this is the time it has to elapse before the customer sees some noticeable change. That is untrue. Well, to some extent because we need to define what sort of push to production code classifies as a release. But with Google for example, i do know that the backend for both the search and the ads is updated continuously (2-3 weeks). For Amazon that is even more frequent. True, that does not mean that the layout of the website changes dramatically (and there shouldnt be any reason for that to change) but let's be real, do you seriously think that big companies like those let more than a year pass without adding/modifying backend functionality or front end code? Or by release you meant something else altogether?

Quoted from "Snellembiss"

it's sky blue

Quoted from "Snellembiss"

Don't be silly! Peaches are peach coloured!

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