• @acosmichippo
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    231 day ago

    are all the bugs ever gone from any game?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 day ago

      Eventually: Yes.

      There are a finite number of bugs (or bug types rather, you could have infinitely many bugs from the same few lines of code) and it will take finite time to fix them all. You cannot know when you have fixed all of them though. But some games have gone above and beyond with fixing bugs, like Factorio where you will not encounter bugs without explicitly looking for them.

      • @Kelly
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        261 day ago

        Allow me to summarise:

        Yes, but actually no

      • @acosmichippo
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        81 day ago

        but also when you rework game mechanics, add content like expansions, etc there will be even more new bugs. it’s a moving target.

          • @Tattorack
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            723 hours ago

            Then you still won’t fix all the bugs. Time is your enemy, and new hardware and its requirements will introduce their own bugs.

            • @[email protected]
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              115 hours ago

              Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.

              Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.

              The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.

    • @[email protected]
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      -231 day ago

      Well, I just played through Star Wars Outlaws and I didn’t have a single problem. I’m sure someone discovers bugs in the most stable games, but most games don’t have noticeable bugs years after release.