I don't think it is a bandwidth issue. I think that they purposefully push the update to x% of the users first, wait for potential problems and then resume the rollout.
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Some gems of adventure games are among my all time favorite games and I revisit them once every couple of years but I still have to admit that the genre is almost always broken.
Adventure games very often rely on puzzles based on lateral thinking, it makes a lot of sense on paper in order to entertain the player and make him feel smart but I can't remember how many times I thought up a good lateral thinking solution, just to be thwarted by the game. It was just not the solution the designers expected, and the game does not even bother explaining why and push the player in the right direction.
Not to mention frantic pixel hunting & obscure death conditions forcing you to check a walkthrough.
Having a player die in an action game usually means that he will need to replay the last segment. It is a bit bothering if it happens too often, but these action sequences are why the player is here and with good emergent gameplay playing twice the same sequence can turn out very differently and be extremely entertaining.
In an adventure game, it just means that you will have to listen again to the same dialogues, and make the exact same actions, with just a slightly different step somewhere along the way.
We try hard to provide good feedback on each submission (certainly not just a 10 minutes look, even for a truly awful entry).
I think that we should try harder to provide an exercise with a maximum time spent. We also try hard to overlook things that can be attributed to a lack of time but the openness of the exercises we use mean that somebody willing to could spend dozens of hours on it if he/she wanted a truly perfect solution (with unit tests everywhere, handling all API levels & devices in the wild, ...)
I personally thinks that our exercises are more objective than whiteboard tests & better reflect real life work. Actually, we take our inspiration from real problems we had to solve.
This is why we use Take-Home tests here at deezer.
The part we don't have got right yet is how to manage the length of such an exercise. Finding a problem where you have to both demonstrate how you handle several common issues and that is not too long is pretty hard.
