[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
Unless your definition of "bug", "serious bug" and "virtually bug free" are seriously out of whack with my score year as a software developer.

They might be quite different. There are about 80 bugs listed as fixed in the various patches. Most of these are quite minor things, that don't prevent you from playing the game, things like having two Admiral's swords in the game. Of the major bugs that can actually damage a game that is in progress, there have been about 5 or 6 that have been fixed since the release. This includes the battle replay inconsistency, a couple of crash bugs in the VCR, and the problem where two servers that both started at almost exactly the same time on the same machine could sometimes end up sharing the same temp files, which could toast the game data. That's not exactly a large number of bugs, and people pretty much got what they paid for, which is a functional program.