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md40022 · 07-01-2022, 12:59 PM

To the original poster..... I get it. And I feel you.

Investing time into something only to lose it completely is tough. I struggled with investing 20 minutes into a game only to have it crash. I still had the save to fall back on though. I can't even imagine losing the entire save. I absolutely get the frustration.

The tough thing here is it really seems like the developers at OOTP genuinely care about attempting to fix problems. That makes it tough for me because there have been times in the past when I was dealing with bugs and crashes where I wanted to smash the computer and be done with it - but I truly think the OOTP team puts honest effort into fixing issues and I truly hate being a raging maniac when I know the people in question are giving me good, honest effort. And I do believe that is the case.

I did have some crash issues with 23 which I was able to find a work around for and those crashes have supposedly been fixed in a recent patch (so far, so good). But when I was dealing with problems in the past, I was right there with you in wanting to just say "F it".

I'm not a big gamer at all. My brother is though. And he says this type of stuff, with glitches and crashes right after release and then 100000 patches along the way is a lot of times just the way things go. I personally find that people tolerate it as much as they do to be really surprising. Like I've said on here plenty in the past, it wouldn't be tolerated in any other industry....... Could it be improved, or is it just nature of the beast when it comes to programming and developing a software? Truthfully, I don't know enough about it to have an answer for it. All I know is everyone's time is valuable and when it comes to investing your time into something only to have it crash or lose it completely, and for it to be a reoccurring issue that doesn't get resolved...... Man, I'm sorry but I just can't believe that's "normal" in the computer gaming world. Again, what makes it tough is I do think the OOTP team are good people who are trying hard. It would be a lot easier for me to rant and rave to people who I felt were being lazy or neglectful. I don't feel that's the case here. Regardless though, I feel your pain.

07-01-2022, 12:59 PM	#16
md40022 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 740 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	To the original poster..... I get it. And I feel you. Investing time into something only to lose it completely is tough. I struggled with investing 20 minutes into a game only to have it crash. I still had the save to fall back on though. I can't even imagine losing the entire save. I absolutely get the frustration. The tough thing here is it really seems like the developers at OOTP genuinely care about attempting to fix problems. That makes it tough for me because there have been times in the past when I was dealing with bugs and crashes where I wanted to smash the computer and be done with it - but I truly think the OOTP team puts honest effort into fixing issues and I truly hate being a raging maniac when I know the people in question are giving me good, honest effort. And I do believe that is the case. I did have some crash issues with 23 which I was able to find a work around for and those crashes have supposedly been fixed in a recent patch (so far, so good). But when I was dealing with problems in the past, I was right there with you in wanting to just say "F it". I'm not a big gamer at all. My brother is though. And he says this type of stuff, with glitches and crashes right after release and then 100000 patches along the way is a lot of times just the way things go. I personally find that people tolerate it as much as they do to be really surprising. Like I've said on here plenty in the past, it wouldn't be tolerated in any other industry....... Could it be improved, or is it just nature of the beast when it comes to programming and developing a software? Truthfully, I don't know enough about it to have an answer for it. All I know is everyone's time is valuable and when it comes to investing your time into something only to have it crash or lose it completely, and for it to be a reoccurring issue that doesn't get resolved...... Man, I'm sorry but I just can't believe that's "normal" in the computer gaming world. Again, what makes it tough is I do think the OOTP team are good people who are trying hard. It would be a lot easier for me to rant and rave to people who I felt were being lazy or neglectful. I don't feel that's the case here. Regardless though, I feel your pain.