In software industry, there is a widely known saying (and kind of a meme thing) goes as “it is not a bug, it is a feature”. While there are very different reasons for such a saying, some bugs actually were bugs but in time they were deemed to be useful as features too. Video games were no different.
Today we will share 5 examples of such incidents for your entertainment. Here comes the list.
3. The Spy – Quake Team Fortress
Team Fortress was initially a Quake mod, made back in 1996. Game had class system back then too, but it was obviously much more different than what we have today. But there was a bug that eventually caused a new class to rise.
At some point, game had a glitch that caused some players’ names to appear in the wrong colour, deceiving other players to think that player with glitched name was actually in the opposite team. Instead of fixing it and moving on, developers had a much better idea. The Spy.
They built a whole new class that could use disguise and appear truly like a member of opposite team, backstab his enemies and create chaos and confusion on the battlefield. Thanks to that bug and the great developers, a great game became even much better.
