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Article #716012Re: Stacraft 2. What do you think?
From: Doug Jacobs
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:30
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:30
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Loren Pechtel <lorenpechtel@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote: > I also have 20 years of programming for a living and I fully agree > with you. Had Blizzard noticed it during development they should have > taken precautions but there is no expectation for them to notice > something like this. It's a hardware problem. I mostly agree, but then I have some questions: 1: Why hasn't this happened with other software? It's not as though this game was designed to push the limits of PC hardware, unlike other games in the past. So obviously Blizzard has done something differently. 2: When it was discovered that Starforce was damaging CD drives, people weren't blaming the makers of the hardware - they were blaming Starforce (and the companies who protected their products with Starforce.) How is this situation different? Sure, the hardware should have failsafes in place to try and protect itself against overheating, and the drivers should have failsafes to deal with potentially dangerous and damaging input. At any rate, put yourself in the shoes of the victims here. All they did was start up Starcraft2 and then their video card died. Regardless of the actual cause, all they know is that starting Starcraft2 killed their video card. Expecting customers to act as QA/testing/engineering is just ridiculous. > If hardware can be destroyed by improper software then they have a > major obligation to document that which you should not do. These days > the low-level controllers normally are designed to avoid carrying out > dangerous commands and so only the people who write such stuff have to > be concerned with destroying hardware. Yeah, you'd think... But apparently Blizzard managed to find a way around this anyways. -- It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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