• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’d wager technical debt is the reason. It’s no secret that Bethesda’s engine is bad. Bad code makes it harder to do bug-fixes, because it’s harder to find the root cause of things and the risks of having accidental side-effects is far higher. There’s only so many hacks and emergency fixes you can slap into a codebase before it becomes a house of cards that collapses if you breathe on it the wrong way.

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      1 year ago

      Hopefully having MS money will allow them to take the time to learn/create a new engine, it already showed its limits in Skyrim

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          1 year ago

          Might be a shot in the dark here, but a game engine seems like it would be different than an operating system.

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              1 year ago

              You’re the one who brought up Windows where it had no place. They said MS money not MS OS developers.

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              1 year ago

              I forgot Lemmy is a continuous Linux circlejerk, my bad.

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                1 year ago

                Right?

                I too, was trying to figure out what the fuck this guy was getting at until it hit me that they hate windows so much they can’t stop thinking about it.