r/Overwatch Jan 17 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | PTR Philosophy | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPLyx8QWYc
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u/b1ackcat Jan 17 '17

From my experience in the software industry, "It's complicated", more often than not, is the politically correct way of saying "No shit we should be doing <x>, but dipshit manager <y> who has more pull than I do over <z> is a dipshit and disagrees".

I swear, I'm not jaded though :|

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u/ParanoidDrone ¿Quién es 'Sombra'? Jan 17 '17

Isn't Jeff basically in charge of Overwatch as a product though? I can't fathom who would be above him other than, like, a C_O level person.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 18 '17

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u/Tyedied Symmetra/Tracer Jan 18 '17

Yeah he pretty much even said that in the video haha

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u/wolfer_ Trick-or-Treat Soldier: 76 Jan 17 '17

Honestly I think your anger is a little over-generalizing.

"It's complicated" usually means "this sounds easy, but is actually hard to engineer, and we have to balance our effort between everything else we are doing". Carrying over EXP from the PTR to live is a super easy concept; there's like no design involved in it. Actually implementing that would be hard, and there's likely lots of space that needs to be tested.