Hi all, I want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the unusual number of issues after yesterday's game update. I talked with one of our Senior Software Engineers to help me outline what happened, so here you go!
In Monday's studio update we talked about "taking on projects that will keep the game healthy in the long run, like refactoring large swaths of old code". Development on a game that's been live for a decade can be a minefield: fixes like that risk breaking content that was inadvertently depending on a bug in order to "work." That's what happened here when we fixed one of those pieces of old code.
We did catch the problem and fix it, but Murphy's Law was now paying attention. You see, shipping a huge live game like GW2 requires a complex system for managing the flow of code and content going out the door. Behind the scenes there are multiple "copies" of a lot of stuff we work with: copies that are getting tinkered with, copies that are getting tested, and copies ...
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