-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Constructive criticism is a good thing. All of your points have at least some validity to them, and the way you put it forward is a breath of fresh air. Honestly, I don't believe many people (if any) have a problem with anything you've posted. What gets people worked up are posts such as:
> Shitty Shitty Steam and auto updates :P > Shity Shity system :P > Shity Shity sandbox which takes the ability to control updates from you. and > You are not seeing the forest because of the trees. The shitty Steam is > to blame. Should Valve had any common sense and valued its customers > they would never had this Steam enforcing policy. > > Valve, your Steam sucks. Those examples are complete and utter garbage. There is absolutely nothing constructive about them, and all they do is incite people to flame, both in disagreement and support. Personally, when I see stuff like that come through, I almost wish Valve would moderate the mailing list and/or remove the offending people. On 9/27/05, Ben Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wasn't trying to bash Valve, far from it... more along the lines > of constructive criticism. If everyone thinks that (pardon my French) > everything they shit is gold, nothing will ever get done. Implementing a > new > shader effect is all good, but implementing new shaders should NOT cause > major problems with any other mod. If it does, that shows poor design and > QA > issues. > > The main gripe that I have with Valve personally has to do with > their product release pipeline. It seems like the largest area where they > are lacking is in the QA arena. At my previous job writing network > management software, the QA team was a life saver. But you can't utterly > rely on the QA team to find everything, which is why before we even > released > a new feature or bug fix to QA it went through hours of unit testing (and > not just from the code author). And this does not reflect poorly on the > individual team members, but more so upon the management and their lack of > understanding in Engineering practices. > > I by no means meant for this thread to turn into a trolling fest, a > "Steam Sucks v Steam R0x0rs" brawl, or a central source of negativity. I > was > bringing up areas in which Valve seems to be VERY poorly performing in an > effort to help them improve. > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
