Software Hall of Shame

[unixronin]

Disney and Scholastic share a Software Hall of Shame raspberry today.

For what?  Disney Magic Artist Deluxe and Scholastic I Spy Fantasy.

Why?

Because they're both children's games — young children, as in Wendy's is giving I Spy Fantasy away in Kids' Meals — that require Administrator privileges to run.

FAIL.

Don't these people ever think before they write code?

Comments

[hrrunka]

Games seem to be particularly bad, not just in where they want to write stuff, but also in the system settings they'll clobber.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Particularly children's games. It's as though they think kids won't care when the game fucks up.

[hrrunka]

It's the way they do things like reset the screen to some archaic size and colour-depth, and then leave it there when they finally exit, as if everyone should use 800x600 or whatever...