Why are there so many errors in the new quest text?

[Proserpinah-kilrogg]

Whenever I do read it, it’s honestly in one eyeball out the other.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

Blizzard would have different employees working on the two different aspects you’re talking about, so either is inexcusable. It’s pretty bad that a company like Blizzard can’t hire writers who are competent with the English language.

If I’m not mistaken you claimed to have worked QA for some company, you should know this

Yes. I have. And I am telling you how it is (or at least was).

There is not going to be a department at people that do nothing but sit around all day and proof read text as their only job year round. That isn’t reasonable.

This is handled by the general QA team. There isn’t a whole new department. And the writers are competent, come on. Even great writers make homophone typo issues.

Should the issues have been caught? Definitely. Do they need to be fixed? Yep.

In the grand scheme of things are they even mildly important? No. They are the least most important type of bug possible.

Clearly you know nothing about business. It’s ALL ‘minor’ until it crashes down on you. Only a few mistakes are needed to cause major catastrophes.
And crash it will for if this text is any example then who knows what else they’ve flubbed?

Were there any reported crashes due to using the word Citizen’s instead of citizens or Raven’s instead of ravens in the quest text?

No?

Ok. Then lets stop pretending like its the end of the world because there was a homophone swapout.

I’m pretty sure the people handling game-breaking bugs have s**t all to do with the people writing quest text. I’m not sure why this is the hill you’re choosing to die on, but there’s no excuse for these kinds of unprofessional grade school-level errors

I am pretty sure they do. Because hey. I worked in that industry for multiple years.

And hill I want to die on? I forget how allergic people in GD are to things like “facts” and how they want to jump on anyone that brings up any to derail their “Anti-Blizzard Train”.

Thank you for showing us that your opinion on this matter is completely irrelevant

Oh no! Someone possible misused effect/affect! They have no valid opinion on bug fixing! This thread is over! Someone call the Forum Police! Someone made a typo! But the rules of the internet, that means their entire opinion can be disregarded, especially when its concerning an irrelevant topic!

Anyways. I keep forgetting. Yall don’t actually care about how things work in the real world. You just want another reason to complain.

Carry on.

Can’t wait to hear about people that have never worked QA in the video game industry just know how it should be done, and how apparently minor typos should be given the same importance as major game breaking bugs.

[Ripjaws-stormrage]

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[Eyrinjia-hydraxis (Eyrinjia)]

There’s a difference between characters speaking in appropriate (and colorful) dialects, and rampant apostrophe abuse. Unless the apostrophe abuse is a deliberate tactic on the part of the writer – see Terry Pratchett’s novel Going Postal.

[Anareiel-moon-guard (Anareiel)]

Were there any reported crashes due to

Stopped reading right there.
When on vacation in a park, one of my children managed to get poison oak all over himself, including his clothes. The rest of us soon shared in the ‘benefits’. Since he did know what the plant looked like, he was asked why he didn’t say something sooner.
His 11 year-old response was …
Shrug ‘nothing happened so I didn’t think I got it.’.

Lack of immediacy does not always correlate to confirming of future results.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

Stopped reading right there.
When on vacation in a park, one of my children managed to get poison oak all over himself, including his clothes. The rest of us soon shared in the benefits. since he did know what the plant looked like, he was asked why he didn’t say something sooner.
His 11 year-old response was …
Shrug ‘nothing happened so I didn’t think I got it.’.

Lack of immediacy does not always correlate to confirming of future results

Edit:

Came off ruder than I intended, and I apologize. I am once again not saying it should not be fixed.

I am saying that quest text issues that revolve around misplaced apostrophe’s are extremely low importance issues. They often get around to being fixed when more important issues are taken care of first. I can only imagine with a new patch that there are much much more important issues they are working on.

The likelihood of a misplaced punctuation mark or quest text causing a crash is so unlikely, that if it was a crash involved it wouldn’t actually involve the typo. Nothing should be drawing from the quest text that could crash you to begin with. The quest text isn’t actually doing something. So if there were to be a possible crash, it would be due to a larger issue.

In the grand scheme of things, quest text is a very small issue that is often placed on the back burner. If someone wants to read into this “if the quest text is bad, what other more important issues are there that are being ignored?” that is more indicative of their lack of industry experience.

[Puzzle-earthen-ring]

Were there any reported crashes due to

Stopped reading right there.
When on vacation in a park, one of my children managed to get poison oak all over himself, including his clothes. The rest of us soon shared in the ‘benefits’. Since he did know what the plant looked like, he was asked why he didn’t say something sooner.
His 11 year-old response was …
Shrug ‘nothing happened so I didn’t think I got it.’.

Lack of immediacy does not always correlate to confirming of future results.

I crashed the server just last week, from repeatedly banging my head against my keyboard after I saw a misplaced modifier in some quest text. I think I sent some kind of debug command through chat.