The thumbnail image is hilarious. Quintessentially AI - some of the details are so impressive! But then… Backwards thumb stick mouse! The cable is in three pieces lol (or maybe the thumb stick mouse needs several adapters in a row)… Nonsensical single speaker? Squared heart shape mouse mat opposite the “mouse”?? Hang on why are there two pc towers? It just keeps getting worse and worse the longer you look at it lmao
The keyboard is cursed as hell
I like how the cracks in the monitor extend beyond the glass lol
And yet it’s just an illustration for the article that isn’t important for the story.
I’ve released a game on PC game pass (and Steam), and I can tell you that it’s painful for the devs too, before the players ever run into these issues.
One thing that was especially frustrating is that there is no way to automate the process of uploading a build. You have to drag and drop giant files (which you first had to get hold of from the build server in a usual setup). And click buttons and stuff. And wait a lot between steps.
When we mentioned the desire to automate this, so we could automatically deploy eg nightly builds, MS sounded like that was an interesting idea they hadn’t heard of before. WTF.And stuff like that missing will automatically mean that the quality of the build on that platform is worse. No nightly build, but only build on demand requiring human work time and frustration means no frequent testing by QA on the platform, until they absolutely have to.
