TheDarkKnight

Do you think a beta update channel for a consumer device should not be treated with the same care as prod, do you think it is in a hardware manufacturer best interest to even allow the possibility of a mass RMA event with an untested update? And seeing as how this ALSO affected the main production release as well, it seems as though yes their SDET practices aren’t the best and probably should be revamped. This also isn’t the first time this has happened.

Beta is not for experimentation for a hardware company and no business is going to pushing a public beta channel with a bricking update on released hardware.

But yeah, talk to me about your opinion of beta and we can see if my entire career’s experience at fortune 100 company in software engineering can be invalidated simply because har har beta doesn’t mean prod trust me bro.

Didn’t a Democratic senator literally just get pinched for taking bribes in gold from Egypt?

Cool. Fix the update that just bricked a percentage of decks.

Yeah I don't mind tinkering, work in dev so get extra annoyed when things like this happen in production, no way soft bricking should even be in the realm of acceptable possibilities for an update. Shit happens though I guess 🤷

More likely to RMA than go that route. Valve should've QA'd their updates so should cost em some money if they're gonna push untested stuff to prod. If you gotta wipe and start over, best to do it with a fresh deck.