Developers Couldn't Update 'The Division 2' Because a Delayed Update Broke Their Updater (gamesradar.com) 20
"Never before have I seen live service game development summarized so well," quips GamesRadar, summarizing an official tweet Thursday about the game Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
The developers basically had tweeted that The Division 2 "cannot be updated because a recently-delayed seasonal update broke the system used to update the game, so the developers trying to update it have to first update the updater to accept new updates.
"So that they can update it." To recap: the fix for an error that delayed an update resulted in an error that broke the updater which would deliver that update to The Division 2. Consequently, the devs "are unable to make server or client side updates until the build generation system is restored," meaning they can't even extend existing seasonal content to help fill the gap between updates.
"We have good news!" the developers tweeted in an update Friday. "We have successfully created and deployed a server-side update. This is now live and extends Season 10 content. We deeply appreciate your support and patience!"
Thanks to Slashdot reader guest reader for submitting the story
The developers basically had tweeted that The Division 2 "cannot be updated because a recently-delayed seasonal update broke the system used to update the game, so the developers trying to update it have to first update the updater to accept new updates.
"So that they can update it." To recap: the fix for an error that delayed an update resulted in an error that broke the updater which would deliver that update to The Division 2. Consequently, the devs "are unable to make server or client side updates until the build generation system is restored," meaning they can't even extend existing seasonal content to help fill the gap between updates.
"We have good news!" the developers tweeted in an update Friday. "We have successfully created and deployed a server-side update. This is now live and extends Season 10 content. We deeply appreciate your support and patience!"
Thanks to Slashdot reader guest reader for submitting the story
Remote management is hard (Score:2)
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Who polices the police?
Who updates the updaters?
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The developers basically had tweeted that The Division 2 "cannot be updated because a recently-delayed seasonal update broke the system used to update the game, so the developers trying to update it have to first update the updater to accept new updates.
It's updaters all the way down!
Perfect (Score:2)
Why can't all developers of all the annoyingly-frequently-updating apps do the same?
Short version (Score:3, Insightful)
They briefly broke the updater, then fixed it.
Least exciting news story in a while.
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But Updatecession! Just need to tie Decaprio in some how...
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it was fun news for me, with a trace of poetic justice: as i posted recently, i uninstalled this game the second time their obtuse launcher screwed up the installation.
crap company making crap software in the form of flashy games appealing to masses of youths that aren't even aware of the notion of software quality. may they burn in hell, then drown in shit. or vice-versa. then, next.
How Meta! (Score:2)
Both in the dictionary sense, and in the "go fast and break things corporation" sense....
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. (Score:4, Funny)
DevOps ivs RonCO (Score:1)
We can't update... because the updater is broken and it can't update itself.
What's next?
We can't build a trusted C compiler because the trusted C compiler has been broken?
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/li... [win.tue.nl]
We can't boot the computer because we can't load the boot-loader?
RonCO - put that chicken in the rotisserie... "Set it and forget it."
Clearly cheaper than a DevOps process. It even saves time on that whole pesky validation, non-regression, and QA part of the process.
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Yo dawg! (Score:3)
I herd you like updates, so we put an updater in your updater so you can update your updater.
Yo, dawg (Score:2)
Game as service = The experience is ruined later (Score:2)
Hopefully you can shrug off the loss and switch to another game when your favorite gamemode is removed to push players over to the new crap.
Just one word for that: (Score:2)
Updateception!
Love loves to love love? (Score:1)
This story made me think of James Joyce:
Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentleman. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschoyle with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen. Mrs Norman W. Tupper loves officer Taylor. You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everybody.
On a serious note, the amount of transparency about the issue was outstanding.