Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33870577-20180821001632/@comment-208.91.114.4-20180821212504

SlatBH wrote: RattleSnack wrote: Very happy about the PR in the leaderboard, however not happy about the loss of the split timer - who on earth at FM thought it was a good idea to get rid of that???!!! It was all I cared about when making a run! I read something on Reddit where they explained it was because of data storage related to the possible time penalties (see link), which is another silly thing IMO. Their explanation was reasonable in technical terms, but I will very much miss the split when the update eventually drops. Let's hope if we complain enough, they reinstate it Speaking as a programmer, their explanation is stupid. Any programmer could see how to fix this in about 10 seconds, and their rationale about tripling the memory consumption is just idiotic.

What happened here is some non-technical customer-relations guy asked a programmer for an explanation and the programmer didn't want to defend his stupid choice on the merits, so he just fed him a bunch of nonsense BS.