Why does it take game developers so long to fix very obvious bugs/issues?

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Not trying to criticize anyone, just curious about the process.

When I report a bug that the developer acknowledges, why does it take so long to fix it? For example, 2 months ago I report a bug where the characters weapon disappears in this very specific area. 2 months later, after several updates, the bug is still there and the response I get is, “we are still trying to find a fix for this”.

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Developers get a lot of tickets to fix issues, and they need to be prioritized, because they’re not able to fix all of them at once. Generally, there are two things you’ll look at when prioritizing a bug: 1. does this have a huge impact and 2. will this be difficult to fix.

Stuff that has a huge impact will get prioritized first, and for smaller issues, the ones that are easy to fix tend to get done before others. In your case, there are probably other bugs with higher impacts that they are investigating, or it would be incredibly difficult to fix that bug and the developers don’t think it’s a big enough deal to prioritize it.

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