Bad news, friends: We've been had. Deceived. Led up the garden path and comprehensively bamboozled. It turns out that, for all these years, our loading screens have been lying to us.
Spotted by GamesRadar, a jovial tweet about loading bars not being smooth enough—from comedian Alasdair Beckett-King—has prompted countless game devs to fess up to a conspiracy that goes to the heart of our hobby: Many loading bars in our favourite games bear zero relation to the actual progress of a load at all. Devs have just been putting them in for the psychological effect they have on players.
