They meant the feature flag should've stayed false until the player base was hooked on the game enough to make the pushback minimal.

Intern slipped, fell and landed on the "monetize extra lives" button

I mean, it happens to all of us. Just the other day I was working on letting users change the font in an app and I accidentally made it so they needed to enter a valid credit card number to log in, complete with detailed instructions, and then accidentally charged them $20.

Not sure how any of that happened. I'll definitely get around to disabling it soon though, I promise.

Once I was programming a fintech solution for a big client. Someone way back when made an error in how numbers (money, cents) are to be rounded up or down. When you had to create a new feature that handled money, you had to reproduce that bug (since users got used to the math being wrong)

Also internally : "The result of our cleverly disguised market study came in, there is still too much backlash against it right now. Try again in 6 months."

The game is a mess. I watch my kid play it and it’s so less graceful than smash. Framerates randomly drop, lag spikes happen a few times a minute, hit boxes seem nebulous compared to attack animations.

You can use maybe a quarter of the roster for free. You may be able to unlock everybody from in game currency, but I’m not too sure. They also just… removed a character that wasn’t free. If I paid any money for premium content I’d be pissed

Pff, look at all these silly, price sensitive, players.