Continuing with our latest theme of update screw-ups, a new and more ridiculous bug has cropped up in one of the bonus stages in the Winter Mission Carnival.
According to posts in this thread on the official PSU forums, many players' games are either crashing or freezing during Stage 7 of World of Illusion: Alpha. Sega has not said much at this point other than that they are looking into the issue.
I haven't tried the mission yet, but I do have this to say: Does anyone at Sega actually test things on the servers before they go live? Testing probably could have identified the Stage 7 glitch, and it probably could have fixed the disappearing mission glitch that came up yesterday afternoon.
Because the maintenance periods are so late in the evening, I bet that Sega of America employees skip extensive testing so they can get some sleep. This is absolutely no excuse, though. Some level of detailed testing is always necessary. Just because it worked on the test server doesn't mean it automatically works on the live servers. Putting out buggy content doesn't do much for customers, either (especially in this case since the last event we had was MAG and we all know how well that turned out).
For now, I imagine that it would be a good idea to just continue collecting Event Tickets. It's not worth anyone's time or effort to spend tickets on a mission that is randomly impossible to complete. Fix it, Sega!
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