2002 completely a problem with the game itself?

[Larirawiel]

It isn't necessary. It's lazy programming.

For me it looks like a quick & dirty hack to mitigate something that was a possible problem 8 years ago. And they never fixed it because it never hit them hard enough. Now with the very long queues this "fix" is very contra productive. And it is a good example why every software company should work on technical debt.

Cheers