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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5382609" data-attributes="member: 8158">I don't know whether to give you a big hug or to give you Biff's George-MacFly treatment. I often think we do live in a world of crumbling standards, where people mistake snideness for wit, inadaptability for strength, and labor under the misconception that self-esteem is a right, not a privilege. But you take the notion of high standards to a bad place. Sure, many bugs for computer software are inevitable for a mass-release product, particularly one running an an open OS like Windows. You cannot catch them all. That's because there are endless variations of computers running different hardware, different OS's, different browsers, different AVS's, and so forth. This is why game developers have fallen in love with console. As you say, focusing feverishly on making applications absolutely pristine before release would be extremely expensive. It would also mean very long delays before product release. Both of those are prohibitive factors for most businesses, and I suspect WotC is likely one of them.To reject what I have just said is to reject reason and pragmatism. That is the distinction between the sort of high standards that place one behind the velvet rope of the select elite and the sort of high standards that induce one to move to a shack in the middle of Montanna after mailing the President of the United States a letter that you are formally seceding your property from the rest of America to form a sovereign nation.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Seriously, I can relate to some degree. I'm playing Civ V right now, and it's got some glaring lack of polish. I'm also playing Fallout New Vegas, and it's riddled with bugs on a vast scale. But I can take into account factors like the time spent of development and the level of ambition displayed, and I wind up forgiving Fallout more than Civ V. Standards should be based upon practical, reasonable criteria, not pie-in-the-sky ideals.</blockquote>

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