Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12330013-20160101022123/@comment-26390896-20160202221142

BunsenH wrote: Angelof9 wrote: Get rid of the Christmas layout already! It's freaking February. Feels like they just gave up on this game. Patience. There has been only one update since Christmas! There will probably be another soon, and I expect that the decorations will go away in that one. Probably with new decorations for Valentine's Day, if they follow the pattern of the original MSM. I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of work that goes into developing a video game. Last month I read this Wikipedia article titled Video Game Development and was further enlightened. Pay special attention to the Development Process section. Under the heading Post Production-> Maintenance the article says: "Programmers wait for a period to get as many bug reports as possible. Once the developer thinks they've obtained enough feedback, the programmers start working on a patch. The patch may take weeks or months to develop, but it's intended to fix most accounted bugs and problems with the game that were overlooked past code release, or in rare cases, fix unintended problems caused by previous patches. Occasionally a patch may include extra features or content or may even alter gameplay." And once all of that hard work is done,"...some developers will give team members comp time (perhaps up to a week or two) to compensate for the overtime put in to complete the game..." Then the workers at BBB can take some much needed time off while we enjoy the game. :)  On the topic of Christmas decorations, once one of my neighbors left a plastic Santa figure out for months. I secretly devised a plan involving my son's paintball gun. Of course I never carried it out. I'm too much like the Walter Mitty character. :)