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Originally Posted by DMN
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The idea of someone unintentionally coding in a novel mana reduction on a per tick basis into a spell seems incredibly unlikely. But Verant's patch messages were notoriousy unreliable/vague.
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I wouldn't think about software development as having "unintentional coding". What probably happened was the programming team was tasked with creating the mana drain feature on spells. But after it was coded and implemented, the game designers, qa testers. etc. discovered that the mana drain feature wasn't a good idea for any of the spells that were being released for the expansion they were currently working on.
Instead of deleting the feature (which can be dangerous in a live codebase, and it could be used later on), they decided to just disable the feature on all of the spells that had it. But they forgot to disable it, and so a bug was created, because the spell had mana drain when it shouldn't.