Yes I know, another Baldur's Gate 3 but I found this one genuinely funny.

https://baldursgate3.game/news/hotfix-4-redeployed_86

Yesterday we had to rollback hotfix 4 because of a rare compiler issue. To avoid this from happening again we’re changing the way we deploy patches.

Players who had downloaded hotfix 4 were unable to continue from their hotfix 4 saves once we had rolled back the patch. While this is not ok, rolling back the patch in order to diagnose the problem and limit those exposed to it was the lesser of two evils. We truly appreciate your patience & understanding while we worked to understand the problem.

Their fucking back end is so broken and buggy they're breaking peoples' saves trying to fix all the bugs they have in the game. I don't believe for a second this went through 'rigorous QA' as they claim. Even if they did and what they're claiming is true, this means that in plain English someone down the line somebody buggered the release build and instead of checking everything was good they released it anyway.

What number were they quoting to show off? 400 employees? Lol this is why I'm so disrespectful to these studios now. Even the ex-blizzard dev was mocking Diablo so that should tell you everything. I knew things were bad at the big studios but it really does explain so much. I have the sneaking suspicion that the reason many of these bugs and broken versions never get fixed is because they don't have people who are capable of it anymore. I mean, out of curiosity I checked out a video on Cyberpunk 2077 and it looked like they had 'solved' their FPS issues by downgrading the fuck out of the crowds and traffic in the city, don't know if that's changed at all but it makes me laugh a lot.

This is why whenever any 'gamer' or dev tries to pretend that game development is some mysterious, extremely difficult thing. I do believe it's just a lie to cover up their incompetence. You either know how to fix it or you don't and when you don't, you don't sit there bullshitting people you fork over the money to someone more experienced than you to deal with it. I bet despite the ESG money and everything they're probably too tightfisted to pay their programmers because it's easier to give woke activists minimum wage instead if that.