re: #372 Obdicut

I also know upper management types who are worse than useless, and get paid shitloads. I worked on the Sims Online, and every $9 tester knew it’d be a hellacious flop with terrible outcomes, and all the million-dollar a year VPs told us to fuck off. We got told to stop putting in gameplay bugs.

Result, the game flopped terribly and caused scandals for EA.

Those guys are mostly still there, and if they’re not, they’re at other game companies. Nobody got fired. I mean, testers got fired during that time period for various stuff, but no bigwigs did.

Isn’t that one of three main categories of IT war stories?
1. Stupid user tricks
2. Impossible code specs
3. Management ignoring sage advice on a project or outsourcing initiative