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How exactly is it a fallacy? It's a concept that applies to everyday life. Unless you're there in the office, you have no idea what's going on.

So instead of discussing the topic, you continuously use ad hominem attacks by virtue of dismissal by differentness. If this world functioned by your logic, there would be no such thing as analysts or lawyers.
"But your honor, this lawyer was never at the scene of the crime! How could he claim such a crime ever happened!"
Also you are committing a false dilemma. If I'm at the office, I know what's going on. If I don't, I don't know what's going on. You are ignoring the possibility of other methods, such as historical patterns, data mining, leaks, etc.

Let it go, man. You're wrong. On -many- levels.

You're assuming the recipients actually have the full code for both their systems and the systems they're trying to upgrade to.
For all you know they get nothing more than a differential patch of the before/after for the updates from the original codebase and the developer notes, then have to reverse engineer that to determine applicable changes on their own codebase.

Your frame of reference is too limited if you automatically assume making segmented changes from inconsistent versions of both a client and server is somehow comparable to just modding an SNES game.

Thank you for rewording what I said. Since I don't know their labor/capital ratios for development, I don't know what their rig setup is. Good thing I went with my CoD reference, because patching that bad boy for modding is very strenuous and DM setups help loads to analyze changed code. Also, if they have to reverse engineer, that is a ton easier than having to make code from scratch. It would be strange for there not to be many in-house developed apps after 5 years... I'd get tired of having to RE every patch every time. At some point I'd either make programs or use some that would ease up the process. But historically speaking their patch times have been worse with the same codebase. Are they intentionally making it hard for themselves? Arguing that the game gets bigger and so the coding difficulty increases along with the bug count implies zero optimization effort over the last 5 years.

But since we're on the subject, why would the Korean devs only provide so little post development support? They would have to hate the hell out of the US team to do that.... it just doesn't seem likely.

anyway, enough of this topic. I have to get back to my own coding projects