2016-03-09, 12:27 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote:You know, people say "MapleStory is old, that's why it's so hard to maintain."
But I took Programming 101 back in 1982, and even then we were already taught to never copy-paste code, always use functions or procedures.
The fact that Nexon insists on copy-pasting code, and then fixing one instance but neglecting to fix a dozen others, is just mind-boggling to me. How can such a huge project be developed like that?
Naively, I thought it would be cheaper and better for the business to hotfix bugs rather than put the effort into solving the root cause, but I've since learned that around 60~70% of the cost of programming goes towards maintenance and bugfixes. I can't even fathom how much money NxNA must have wasted fixing bugs multiple times. It seems like such an obvious area to improve to save the most amount of money. Especially when your damn user base continuously points it out.
Are the roadblocks of having to go through NxKR the problem? Wouldn't mama korea at some point, realize, they're approving the same hotfix for the same issue many times over? Or are all the NA and KR programmers just totally incompetent? I can't think of any logical reason their bugfixes have worked this way for so many years. It's almost like they want the game to die.