I am definitely going to share this story with the team. It really touched my heart and I’m sure it will theirs.
I remember when the title went on steam, it was a really big deal.
As for the light saber, lemme look. The box is currently in storage, in it’s original box, neatly packed. I cherish those years.
I indeed did. I started working on it as QA and left the project as a software engineer. It was a really fun experience.
edit: I have a lightsaber replica to show for it. Lol
I worked in Star Wars: The Old Republic for ten years. It’s still running and the story is really nice. EA sold it to Broadsword.
I don’t think they realized anything. I worked for them for 13 years. I think they are likely looking at a strategy to bring archived games with low hardware requirements to new platforms that can run them.
For example, I worked on NBA and Madden Mobile. These were ps3 games that were ported.
It’s a good strategy. Why start from scratch when you can just port existing titles that had good sales.
For that, you actually will need realistic goals and more competent managers. Lol
When I started working at EA 14 years ago (I got laid off last year) they literally told us we might have to sleep under our desks. I promptly told them if that was the case, I would quit. Instead they made us work 7 days a week 9-9 for months. Fun job.
What you don’t want to go to “X”? I can’t imagine why. lol /s same though. Also I refuse to call it x. It’s fucking Twitter. It’s like that line in mean girls, “Gretchen, quit trying to make fetch happen, it’s not going to happen!” Lol
Woohoo!! This awesome! As a game dev, I can speak to how awful the industry can be. That’s really great news that they unionized. 🙌
Lol you can have shade. Nobody is perfect, for example: do you know what a Gold Master is? It’s the final copy of the game that is written on the disk. It’s also the reason why when you buy a game, the patch is gigantic. It’s an out of date build of the game, really really important, and has to be certified by both Microsoft and Sony. (Called the certificatation process) It takes months, but production can’t stop, thus the patch.
The dragon age team, for DAI, built this super important build on a QAs desktop. Why might this be bad you ask? Because it’s an uncontrolled system that’s not clean and is connected to the Internet. Thank God they didn’t have a virus or malware, because it could’ve been written to millions of disks. Lol
It’s the same reason why, initially, the first Star Wars: The Old Republic launcher installed in a user folder named “hedev”. Users were like who the fuck is hedev? Lol that was a coding bug and less of a build mistake but still. (I fixed that bug. Now they use a much much better launcher, went from version 2.6 to version 6.x). I miss that team, they’re rockstars.
The details matter.
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Did you not like DAI? I liked DAI (and worked on it some), but that was a much different BioWare. I was lucky to not work for BioWare when they shit canned the whole Austin office and sold Star Wars: The Old Republic to Broadsword. I heard a loud of BioWare people also left, but what are you doing to do in the shit hole that Edmonton is? Not many options I’ve heard. Though I’ve also heard there are some small studios in Edmonton that have spun off, as they always do.
As someone who has worked directly with that team I’m hopeful but also hoping it’s not another dumpster fire like Anthem was. I could go on forever about that project.
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AHHHH "Has ptsd flashbacks from having to use Cygwin on a mixed build environment for a popular MMO that's about some kind of war up in the stars…" lol NOT THE CYGDRIVE lol jk but it did take me back ~5 years.
Can confirm. Worked at BioWare for ten years. They did a presentation at some big release event and they had the pc off stage with a pan of ice and a fan directly blowing on the open pc. Mmmhm it totally won't melt your pc! They eventually fixed it, but video game announcement trailers are total smoke and mirrors typically.
So when I was in the interview, you know, typically you answer questions, right? I mean there's some back and forth, but typically you're on the end of the stick.
It was Zello. They wanted someone to continue manual deployment. Are you fucking kidding me? Read the reviews. They are all consistent with a good product and an outdated infrastructure team.
Best of luck.
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Reminds me of an interview i was in. I was like, this isn't even in my job description… 7 interviews later. Come to find out, they were HAND DEPLOYING Linux servers to try to scale for double of their user base. I feel like I dodged a bullet.
Not my experience.
I installed a Fedora KDE Plasma spin and it enabled features on my laptop i didn't know existed. It was nice. Windows 11 sucks. I'm happy to get rid of it.
I use Fedora Plasma. It's a spin on KDE. I really like it. Fedora is what i learned Linux on originally and it's nice to go back.
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I also love this game. It’s just fun to play.