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[TRENCHES] Thursday, June 14, 2012 - Abundance
Geth
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LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
Abundance
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/abundance
Yo quiero español
AnonymousWe were doing localization preparation for a project which needed to be localized in Spanish. After a week or two of receiving and compiling bids from translation companies, we presented them to the Executive Producer.
His response? The cost is outrageous, and he instructed us to drive down to Taco Bell and find some Spanish speaking people, and we’ll pay them under the table to translate the game for us.
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Earlier in the season Isaac gets full Staranium armor. Then Credenza says the Mole has full Staranium armor. Then Isaac goes on for a few comics acting like he doesn't know who the mole is. Then he takes Cora out to eat and tells her she is going to get fired.
Is there something I'm missing or is it supposed to be this stupid?
The mole never had the armor. The mole said someone on the QA staff had full staranium.
people are just saying it's bad, but not what is actually happening.
But in any event, I don't understand the "stand" she's taking, or how this equates to her caring too much. Also, the stand she appears to be making seems super silly and worthless. She talks about how she cares so much, but what does she care about? That someone has some armor in a game? I don't understand.
Issac abused his position by finding an economy breaking flaw in the game and exploiting it rather than reporting it immediately. When he DID report it, the damage was done - all of the actual players were abusing the same flaw, utterly destroying the in-game economy.
In order to fix it, the game needs a rollback, which will essentially gut the game's subscriber base.
Cora is the mole, sharing this info (Issac abusing the system, the impending rollback) on the game's official forums because she feels the players have the right to know the truth.
It's all very clear, especially if you go back and re-read it.
Fortunately, you can always go back and reread a big chunk all at once to refresh your memory.
Really?
It's pretty straightforward. Much better than last season.
It wasn't abusing his position, he found it as a player. He just didn't give a shit about the welfare of the game that he's responsible for helping create and maintain, the company that's paying his salary, or the players who are paying for the game, and thus for him to have a job.
The abuse lies more in Isaac not reporting it than in his method of discovering the flaw in the first place. You could argue that if he found the flaw "off the clock" it wasn't his job to report it, but unless the knowledge of that flaw disappears the moment he clocks in to work, he's making the conscious decision to not report it as a bug. I still can't figure out why someone testing a game like this would choose to play it in their off-time.
Blisaac sounds like a good replacement name.
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In fairness, since the sector was Marley's responsibility during testing, and he found the bug first but failed to report it (rather delegating it to a hallucinatory chimerical assistant), he did deserve blame.
He could have managed to get a place now that he's been working for a while. It's not really clear how much time is supposed to have elapsed since the beginning of the comic. Or maybe he just plays on a laptop at coffee shops.
True. It's possible there was nobody working who could have fixed the bug if he had reported it then anyway. Still, the fact that his first thought was exploiting the glitch for personal gain shows some irresponsibility.