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I think it comes down to requirements. If games aren't running smoothly, people simply won't play them.

Business apps have it a lot easier - the users are more forgiving, I guess either because they don't have a choice in the matter or any better options.

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Also the people who buy business apps are often not the people who actually have to use them every day. So UI/UX ends up being a much lower priority than say cost.

And, if the program processes data too quicky, users think it isn't working. (Managers, perhaps, think it isn't working hard enough.)

Fortunately, there is a rails library for that. https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey

If that were the problem, we would solve it by adding sleep() calls...

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