From what my friends tell me about gamespy (I know people who work there and I attend the company lan parties), it's run by a bunch of kids who love to play games, but they have no business or software development experience. There's also a bunch of weird stuff going on inside their engineering group.
The project lead for Arcade is a spaghetti-coder who does nothing all day, but meets deadlines by hitting a meth pipe all weekend to hack out masses of buggy code that gets released to customers on monday. This is the guy that does the bloated Arcade user interface. He and his "wife" are closet homosexuals that use each other as beards. The married couple live with the wife's girlfriend who is a well-known female quake player.
Their head of engineering is a sexually frustrated 24 year old virgin who spends 22 hours a day at work, half of it late at night surfing for porn. I hear there's a betting pool inside Gamespy for when this guy is gonna get laid. Coworkers are praying it'll be soon so he'll chill out and stop being so uptight. He dropped out of school and got hired at Gamespy, but he's never worked at a software company before! This guy hired the Arcade programming team.
So with an engineering group like that, is it any wonder that they could be incompetent enough to release Arcade with a virus?
It's too bad because the original Arcade (Gamespy 3D) and the planetquake.com website worked well. There's nothing wrong with Gamespy making money, but Mark Surfas could have at least hired some real programmers.
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From what my friends tell me about gamespy (I know people who work there and I attend the company lan parties), it's run by a bunch of kids who love to play games, but they have no business or software development experience. There's also a bunch of weird stuff going on inside their engineering group.
The project lead for Arcade is a spaghetti-coder who does nothing all day, but meets deadlines by hitting a meth pipe all weekend to hack out masses of buggy code that gets released to customers on monday. This is the guy that does the bloated Arcade user interface. He and his "wife" are closet homosexuals that use each other as beards. The married couple live with the wife's girlfriend who is a well-known female quake player.
Their head of engineering is a sexually frustrated 24 year old virgin who spends 22 hours a day at work, half of it late at night surfing for porn. I hear there's a betting pool inside Gamespy for when this guy is gonna get laid. Coworkers are praying it'll be soon so he'll chill out and stop being so uptight. He dropped out of school and got hired at Gamespy, but he's never worked at a software company before! This guy hired the Arcade programming team.
So with an engineering group like that, is it any wonder that they could be incompetent enough to release Arcade with a virus?
It's too bad because the original Arcade (Gamespy 3D) and the planetquake.com website worked well. There's nothing wrong with Gamespy making money, but Mark Surfas could have at least hired some real programmers.
...PB82