The Gifts of StarCraft 2

[The_Blade]

This brings up and interesting question to me I'd like to ask you all. Blizzard, like any other software development company, has what's considered "crunch time"

With all the information provided by the community as a whole, do you speculate they're in "crunch time" now... if so, how long do you speculate they've been in crunch time...

Time is subjective my friend.

*shifts eyes at ego*

Now ego or should I call you DUSTIN BROWDER... *tun tun tun*

Edit: Ok, lets face it, he is "Jake Doe".
Edit #2: Ok probably not, but an alternative account of archer.
Edit #3: No, he is a spam bot...

[ArcherofAiur]

I think they could very well be in crunch time. They would need to get hardware together in order to proceed with the next step. I imagine the B.net guys are burning midnight oil (and eating pizzas?)... and so might the QA team(s). It would be a good time to try something like having a large number of concurrent matches going on, or a large number of "users" logged into the new system (maybe a thousand?) all at the same time.

As for how long? Well, I believe the holidays would have been a needed break. Probably the first week of the new year was used for spinning everyone back up on the project. So, maybe starting Jan. 11th? Maybe we should send care packages?

- your join date is today
- you have only made two posts
- Gifted responded to you and not the others before you
- you used an inside joke from the begining of the old thread ie before you joined
- you have an incredibly detailed speculation complete with exact dates
- your alibi has elaborate and irrelevant details.
- your name is ego

[Gifted]

Hidden Content:

I'm hiding this because it's a joke and nothing official. I think this is probably the safest way to ensure you know when I'm speaking "in the thread" (Non-hidden) and when I'm making side comments(hidden like this). This is to alleviate confusion.

He's a spy!!!!!

[ego]

Sorry, I don't mean to cause any ripples. I have been lurking for quite some time and have had plenty of time to speculate. As for detail... because of crunch time at my work I was on the clock for 23 hours yesterday (a lot of that was travel, though... do all airplanes have to have such terrible, terrible seats?).

[ArcherofAiur]

- your join date is today
- you have only made two posts
- Gifted responded to you and not the others before you
- you used an inside joke from the begining of the old thread ie before you joined
- you have an incredibly detailed speculation complete with exact dates
- your alibi has elaborate, irrelevant and overly stressed details
- your name is ego

Fixed.

[Xyvik]

So is it still too late to say I have no bleeding idea what this thread is....woah.

Airplanes. Conference calls. Crunch time.

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In the words of an immortal Captain James T. Kirk, albeit edited...



GIIIIIIFFFTTEEEEEEEDDD!!

[Skyze]

Hidden Content:

I'm hiding this because it's a joke and nothing official. I think this is probably the safest way to ensure you know when I'm speaking "in the thread" (Non-hidden) and when I'm making side comments(hidden like this). This is to alleviate confusion.

He's a spy!!!!!

I C wHat you did there..

or maybe.. C wHat I did there..

[ego]

Well, if I was another of Archer's accounts... I'd be talking to myself?

Spam bot? I haven't tried to sell you anything!.. yet.

A spy? Burn him! Oh, wait...

Gifted, is it "Saturday works", or "works Saturday"? And, do you know how long they've been in crunch time? I can't imagine it was through the holidays, but that is just a guess.

[ArcherofAiur]

I find it interesting that ego and Gifted have never posted at the exact same time....

[ego]

Well, I can pretend to be Gifted... But, in order to do that I need to know everything before I can offer proper "gifts". So, Gifted, can you PM me the info?