alt Hacker NewsIt was needed. Just the trade off wasnt worth it.
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red-iron-pine • yesterday at 7:03 PM
it wasn't needed -- need means "must have"
they're a fantastically popular franchise with a ton of money... and did it without the optimizations.
if they never did these optimizations they'd still have a hugely popular, industry leading game
minor tweaks to weapon damage will do more to harm their bottom line compared to any backend optimization
Tepix • yesterday at 2:17 PM
I'd argue it was incompetence.
It was wanted and intentionally selected, but it wasn't needed.