Community World of Warcraft Might Just Be the Glitchiest Game Ever

By jalexbrown — September 18, 2009
Tags: blog Glitch World-of-Warcraft WoW


According to a report from Blizzard, the mega-popular MMO is littered with glitches galore.

According to wow.com (and also discussed to some length at the Game Developers Conference), Blizzard is reporting that World of Warcraft is plagued with almost 180,000 glitches that they're tracking.  What that means in layman's terms is that there's almost 180,000 problems with the game that are either fixed, being fixed, or not yet in the process of being fixed.  Unfortunately Blizzard didn't give a breakdown of where these glitches stand, but given the immense number of patches that have been released - and certainly the almost certain prospect that a ton more will be on the way - I'd say a good number of the glitches are in some stage of being fixed or being worked on.  However, each new expansion pack is bound to breed a whole slew of new glitches in the process of fixing the old.

Is it surprising that World of Warcraft is plagued with that many bugs, or is it more surprising that Blizzard would come right out with such a staggering number?

Comments
BatRastered

Having worked on large software products in the past, I can tell you for a product of the size and age of WoW, that's not too big a number (assuming it includes fixed bugs).

Given the size of that number it's sure to include bunches of duplicates, bugs that no longer happen in newer versions, weird things that only happen on Win 98 with IE5.1 on a Tuesday, and a bunch of "This font should be bigger or brighter" type fit and finish issues.

Sep 18, 2009 by BatRastered

goukijones

Anything made on the PC can be fucked with to no end. Jimmy don't like PC games.

Oct 19, 2010 by goukijones

SonicZero

well at least they're doing an ok job cause i dont notice a thing when playing when i do

Feb 8, 2011 by SonicZero

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