Fewer errors

[Robo76]

I wish ED would stop working on new features for at least a year and just fix the huge amount of accumulated bugs. Even after years and many fixes, the warehouses don't work and it's hell for the creators of more complex missions and they have to shut them down in the end. Every update is usually a bigger or smaller disaster and often brings more new bugs than they fix. I'm sure many mission creators have given up on DCS for these reasons. Today I'm tired of DCS bugs again, I have to take a medical break.

[Kang]

If it were only the mission creators...

No, seriously, I agree there are about three or four aircraft carriers worth of gross register tonnes of things that ended up 'on the backlog' for who knows how long. Literal bugs of things not working, plenty of issues of things kinda working but definitely not right and a plethora of things that weren't exactly cutting edge back then but are frankly hideous design choices today.

But I think we all know what ED's reply is going to be. 'It's complicated and takes time', 'We don't have time to work on it because there are so many other things that need doing' and the classic 'provide a track!'.

 

P.S.:
While I'm sure someone will kindly point out how I am not a software developer and thus have no idea about that, it isn't made better by the fact that a lot of these things (mind you definitely not all) are pretty much copy/paste jobs for an afternoon, which we know, because community members, past and present, have provided these fixes in mods previously.

Edited yesterday at 08:27 PM by Kang
Post Scriptum

[Rudel_chw]

51 minutes ago, Robo76 said:

I wish ED would stop working on new features for at least a year and just fix the huge amount of accumulated bugs.

I’ve seen this wish several times before, but not once have I seen how do they propose to keep the company afloat during that year.

[Robo76]

If this has been proposed here several times in the past and nothing has changed, something is wrong. Unfortunately, ED is gradually bringing this situation to its own attention with its approach. When they cannot distribute efforts and resources so that mistakes do not occur over time, they only complicate the situation cumulatively in the future, until it may eventually become unsolvable. I estimate that they must already be focused on newspaper income and they have no time or money left for old mistakes-debts. And on top of that, there are legal - economic issues with RAZBAM. I am also sure that a lot of people will come to explain to us that it is okay.

[Rudel_chw]

2 hours ago, Robo76 said:

If this has been proposed here several times in the past and nothing has changed, something is wrong. 

another thing that I’ve seen a lot on this Forum, are new users that think they know best how to run a software development company… maybe you are the exception and a true genius at running business, but so far I’m not impressed.

Edited 20 hours ago by Rudel_chw

[Kang]

21 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

I’ve seen this wish several times before, but not once have I seen how do they propose to keep the company afloat during that year.

Selling a lot of the modules that are actually released and would become a whole lot less annoying to use, I presume.

I know that probably doesn't work out, but it is no secret that the enormous backlog of errors is only getting bigger and bigger, and it sure hampers DCS' progress and in turn sales. Now, I'd say that ED isn't exactly a prime example of being geniuses at running a business either, but to be honest - they might have us morons figured out just right and manage to just scrape by despite the releases to - as you said - stay afloat during the year, coming ever quicker and - some people say - being less and less impressive.

[Rudel_chw]

19 minutes ago, Kang said:

I'd say that ED isn't exactly a prime example of being geniuses at running a business either

 

They have been running their business for almost 35 years, can you tell me which other simulation software company has run as long? 

No, microsoft doesn't count ... their original Flight Sim series ran from 1982 to 2009, and their current FS 2020 series was comissioned to a french software house, with no relation to the prior product, while IL-2 dates from 2001 ... so ED seems pretty sucessful to me.