Instead of cutting Ultimate from 5.5 why not cut bozja?

[MPK]

COVID isn't a good excuse. My company managed to set up a VPN so we can work from home pretty fast. SE is a large multi billion dollar company, it's insulting to think that they're not able to set up a work from home setup like everyone else can.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

COVID isn't a good excuse. My company managed to set up a VPN so we can work from home pretty fast. SE is a large multi billion dollar company, it's insulting to think that they're not able to set up a work from home setup like everyone else can.

You needing just a VPN, and SE needing large workstations that draw lots of power and high bandwidth internet connections for every dev are 2 very different things.

They literally had to have movers take the workstations from the office to people's houses. This was not a simple "set up a VPN and go" thing...

Simplifying this to suit your narrative just makes you look worse.

[linayar]

You needing just a VPN, and SE needing large workstations that draw lots of power and high bandwidth internet connections for every dev are 2 very different things.


Simplifying this to suit your narrative just makes you look worse.

It's ultimately (pun intended) irrelevant anyway. Whatever the reason (or excuse, if you must), the fact remains that they weren't able to finish Ultimate on time and they're not going to release it unfinished or make people work overtime to release it in 5.5.

And as for the alternative, they're not going to cut an entire series of relic quest let alone delay the next expansion over not delaying a single independent battle instance.

Whether people can accept this fact or not is not going to change SE's plan. The only thing they can do is learn from this and hopefully have a way to prevent this delay from happening again.

[Barristan]

COVID isn't a good excuse. My company managed to set up a VPN so we can work from home pretty fast. SE is a large multi billion dollar company, it's insulting to think that they're not able to set up a work from home setup like everyone else can.

A VPN for everyday office tasks is nowhere near on the scale of the VPN needed for game development, but nice try.