Quote Originally Posted by AziraSyuren View Post
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I do think the rapid fire nature of it isn't helping. It's harder and harder to defend mistakes if they happen consecutively with relatively little time inbetween, people often conveniently memory-holing problems after enough time has passed. With SAM/NIN/Hroth/Viera/Housing/etc. happening in tandem, however, the usual suspects who would defend are finding it hard to hold the line and many more of those who would have helped them are becoming disillusioned.

Not to mention that there's no real way out of this. When it all comes down to it, the pretense that "It's going to be hard to find out what went wrong" when we basically all but know it was a failure to exclude an integer Unless they picked an absolutely esoteric and alien way to perform these lotteries that no other company does, which is about just as bad. screams three potential things:

-Dishonesty (In the possibility that they're acting like changing a number is truly that difficult).
-Incompetency (In the possibility that they've failed to notice a 4-line piece of code that gets QA tested even in highschool computer labs)
-Lack of Care ( In the possibility that they've grown comfortable with how complacent the community has gotten, effectively abusing it)

I agree things have been on the downtrend since StB as someone who was once such an AST main that it was my only leveled job, though I have to assume that people were more accepting of a slow decay rather than this sudden and vicious rot.

In the event my message got lost in the insane ramblings I can go on, I'll condense people's surprise into two sentences:
SE was boiling the frog. They accidentally turned up the heat too high this time and the frog noticed.