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dragon · 10-09-2008, 16:48

Just wandering if People here think that the fact that with Broadband becoming more popular and an ever increasing number of people having access to the internet whether its causing an overall decrease in the quality of (Mostly commercial) software?

It may be down to the increasing complexity of modern software but it seems to me that in the days when most people didn't have internet access that software seemed to be more reliable, probably because if it didn't work it wasn't all that easy to get a patch out to fix it.

Thesedays the Mentality seems to be release it now so we can start making money off it and then we'll fix it later. It's amazing that some software often needs huge patches (perticullarly games) within weeks of its release.

Surely if it had that many problems it wasn't ready to be let out of beta.

10-09-2008, 16:48	#1
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	Internet's effect on Quality of software? Just wandering if People here think that the fact that with Broadband becoming more popular and an ever increasing number of people having access to the internet whether its causing an overall decrease in the quality of (Mostly commercial) software? It may be down to the increasing complexity of modern software but it seems to me that in the days when most people didn't have internet access that software seemed to be more reliable, probably because if it didn't work it wasn't all that easy to get a patch out to fix it. Thesedays the Mentality seems to be release it now so we can start making money off it and then we'll fix it later. It's amazing that some software often needs huge patches (perticullarly games) within weeks of its release. Surely if it had that many problems it wasn't ready to be let out of beta.