My theory on what happened (Destiny)

by Blackt1g3r , Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Monday, August 06, 2018, 07:43 (2378 days ago) @ Korny

Developers make this kind of trade-off all the time. Why make a band-aid fix (which is a non-trivial amount of effort) to fix something that isn't actually broken but is just an annoyance to some percentage of users? It all depends on the severity of the problem as well as the complications involved in fixing the problem. Any band-aid fix is likely to have to be reverted from the codebase to fix the real issue. Depending on the state of the codebase sometimes this makes sense as it's easy to have both changes in parallel, but in other cases it can actually make the "real" fix harder to do. Without fully understanding the Destiny codebase it's impossible to say what kind of challenges Bungie is facing here and I guarantee you they aren't lying about it being challenging to fix.