Carpone wrote on Oct 14
th, 2013 at 7:21pm:
Turbine needs to take a lesson from bug bounty programs run by Microsoft, Google and others. Bug bounties work.
I completely agree Turbine needs to do this, but it isn't even their biggest problem. Turbine knew about this well in advance and did nothing - isn't this what MM was here smirking about?
Learning about exploits isn't their problem. Caring enough to fix them is their problem.
How many people have reported problems on Lamania only to have them go live weeks later?
Turbine could have tons of free QC if they'd only just listen. They have a near fanatical fanbase that would work many unpaid hours for the betterment of the game. All we ask is to not be completely ignored, how is that too much for Turbine to afford?
Instead all we get is whine, whine, whine, Lamania is a preview server not a beta test server. Well DUH, it's your server, MAKE it a beta test server!
It drives me crazy when those moronic fanbois say how Turbine can't afford to do it right. I love this debacle because it proves to anyone with more than half a brain that Turbine can't afford to keep doing it wrong.
What I'd love to get out of this is somebody high up at Turbine coming forward and owning this, along with a transparent plan - something we the community could watch happening - to change things. A promise to make all bug reports public and no push to live until a build was stable on Lamania for 2 weeks would do it.
Am I holding my breath? No, but I AM holding my credit card ...