WhiteTigerShiro said:
Falterfire said:
If this is a legitimate combination of abilities that just happens to be insanely unbalanced instead of a true glitch (The article wasn't clear) then I hope the exploiters aren't punished. Nothing turns off gamers more than knowing that they'll be punished if they are too good at the game. (Or in this case, too good at picking abilities)
If you watched the video, you'd know that the exploit has to do with using two abilities simultaneously that the average person would normally never use at the same time. It's likely a glitch that has to do with you activating the Archon mode while in mid-teleport. (( Edit: Ninja'd xP ))
Also, real classy of the guy to give "props" to Blizzard for "letting another exploit slip by", because I'm sure that a QA department of any size is going to catch a glitch that took millions of fans a few months to accidentally trip over. I also love how this guy, who has probably been playing Diablo 3 since it came out, makes a point to talk about how shitty Diablo is. But then, at this point, I've lost all faith in Diablo fans; which is to say nothing that being compounded on top of my faith in gamers in general already being pretty low.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Bugs are hard to find and from my own experience they can come up in development (or even after development) at the worst of times. Also, his mocking of them for not fixing it in 3 hours is a clear sign he has absolutely no experience in making a game. This is a programming issue, and programmers will know that this sort of thing has no 'drag-and-drop' involved, it's all code. If a bug is found, the code has to be searched through. This isn't a simple case of looking through reams of code and changing something, there's a few steps to fixing a bug (programming terminology incoming, some words may not make real-world sense):
1) Searching: First you have to find the bug, and this can be very difficult. Knowing where to look is pretty hard, in this case there's gonna be at least a few places. I'd guess the searching would involve the Wizard class and all its methods, the class/method for teleportation and the other ability, and then there's still code to search through.
2) Evaluating: How the buggery are you going to fix this? It can be as simple as rearranging some blocks of code, or could entail a complete re-write and/or redesign of the code. This requires cost and time evaluations as well, so even considering fixing the bug takes time.
3) Doing: Fixing the actual bug can take time and cost money depending on how serious the issue is and/or how complicated it is to fix.
...3 Hours...
Also, despite the fact that someone posted a video a month ago with the exploit, if gaming magazines are only just now reporting the issue, then when do you think that Blizzard will have noticed it? (do you really think that the guy would've reported it)
