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		mattmanser on June 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TDD from the Factorio Team Because the worst case scenario is that they get half-way through the refactor, the game's a buggy mess, and then they all move on. And that's got a non-trivial chance of happening.

xyzzyz on June 18, 2021 [–]

Sounds like a good deal for customers: either the dev team delivers, in which case they get better product, or they don’t, in which case they can keep using the current version.

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