No Patch?

Btw the Server are lagging like hell since maintenance

@power-hansen Ha ha

@power-hansen World peace would be nice, too. In an ideal world, things would be ready to go well beforehand, sure. It’d be nice. But, not all projects management plans work on schedule - especially when developing a shared world multiplayer game, where the most important test happens at scale... on release - when people start doing things you didn’t think of (whether you should have thought of it or not.)

@power-hansen I’m just sayin’... wanting things to run that smoothly is a bit of a pipe dream. I can imagine there’s a project manager at Rare - at any game developer, really - who is going bald from the hair pulling.

@suntura - base. B-A-S-E.

Can we all stop for a moment to recognize that this is the worst web design... EVER! I hate this website quite a lot. This game may feel like “Early Access”, but whoever did this web design should be drawn and quartered.

@threezool Feedback is a relative term.

Providing feedback on the nature of new content, or on bugs that affect a tiny percent of players using wild or disparate hardware is one thing...

But we're not professional testers. Game breaking bugs that crash every server should be isolated before release. And the current delay has nothing to do with feedback.

We've traded currency for a product, and I think we're entitled to be disgruntled if communication and delivery are at odds.

Note the distinction here. Utterly fine with longer wait times between patches. Utterly fine with rare bugs sneaking through the cracks. Utterly fine with patches intended to be delivered X being delivered Z ... on the pure condition that said delay is communicated to us properly, not through a misleading tweet (and especially not on the day of release).

Whether or not this kind of thing is an industry norm doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is my experience as a consumer - and so far, it's disappointing.

@threezool Maybe. If that's the case that at least a little more communication - other than a flippant tweet - would be nice.

I'll try and be objective here.

Last week: poor communication, broken patch, rollbacks, disgruntled community.

This week: broken patch, patch delay, poor communication.

Let's ignore hungering deep. It's the future. We don't know what will happen.

This week has been better than last week. Rather than push a broken patch and then say nothing and then roll back twice, they've spotted problems and reacted appropriately.

Hopefully this means they've improved their testing pipeline in some fashion. It's clearly far from perfect, because it caught problems quite late, but fine. Still better than a broken game. Let's say that's an overall improvement in patch releasing.

The problem remains communication. They really, really need to work on this. Almost any problem can be excused if it's messaged appropriately.

But as others have pointed out, doing in a throwaway fashion sends the message that nothing can be taken as truth.

Tldr it's fine to have late patches. It's not fine to pretend they're not late.

@entspeak said in No Patch?:

@themustamissed Not so much giving them a break as not really investing enough to get too riled about a patch delay. Of course, I don’t feel your $60 pain yet, because I’m on Game Pass - and this is one of the reasons I did that. And, believe me, there are some bugs that make me mad.

Perhaps, it’s because I’ve primarily been playing Early Access games for the past 6 years, but I’ve learned to simply say, “meh,” when a patch doesn’t get released on time. I’d much rather have a delayed patch that works.

Well I am not overly mad about it either. Just because someone posts about something doesn't mean they are mad, or so mad they are foaming at the mouth. Just because you are unhappy about something doesn't mean you have to be overly mad either. Simple fact is, they keep screwing up. If they could just communicate better I think a lot of people would simmer down. (Not all, because you always have those who will look for something to complain about)

@mmountain said in No Patch?:

I would prefer fewer/more stable updates with more in them.

Same here. I get they are desperate to please the angry mobs but really it only makes things worse when issues are introduced.

@biter-wylie said in No Patch?:

@themustamissed said in No Patch?:

@entspeak said in No Patch?:

@guybrushcrpwood Yes. Something happened between yesterday and today. Clearly, they thought they would have the patch ready today, and today they realized it wouldn’t be ready. It’s called “game development.” It happens.

Stop, just stop. yes it happens, but this has been an on going thing with them the last few weeks. At some point they need to wake up and communicate better. People like you need to stop giving them a pass on every single thing. As much as some people complain too often, YOU and a few others DEFEND way too much.

This is a AAA game we bought for 60$, we deserve better than this. To say otherwise is just unrealistic to be quite honest. I mean repeating the same mistake (That mistake being to communicate better) over and over does not put any trust in this company and moving forward. If they can't do something as simple as communicate, I have no trust they can do anything else.

Also, if they are having this hard of a time with washed up loot and handing over items, you wanna tell me why I should trust they will get HD out on time and without a c**p ton more issues?

Let me guess, give them a break right? Pfft, that is all most of us have done for 3 months. At some point it IS their fault and problem, not the player base that paid for the game.

God help you when you get a job and realize all projects have snags and delays that effect customers. It will be like being born again :D

God help me when I get a job? Nice dig man, But I work full-time. I know how the real world works, and if I did half of what most gaming company's do when it comes to their customers, I'd be fired as would most. Snags are fine, they happen. But communicate that, and not with a lame tweet.

Keep trying to strawman though. Working so far eh?

@pikavenger sagte in No Patch?:

@m4dkraut I won't be surprised when they announce that Hungering Deep is pushed back.

it got pushed back from early may to almost last day of may.

@aristonsparta I doubt delaying 'handing other players a banana' by two weeks is going to impact consumer satisfaction.

The game is what it is, and future content is glaringly needed. Not just content, but specific gameplay mechanics to keep players engaged in whatever unique PVP / PVE experience SoT is creating.

That said, that content doesn't have to come in piecemeal every week. Major bugs should be addressed every week, not necessarily content.

Hell, so many of Rare's issues with 'community whining' could be resolved through better communication. Everything they say is vague, and despite getting DLC within a week, non of us actually really know what kind of DLC we're getting (giant shark is just a giant NPC, it does not equate to important game changes).

Just saying ... our (or at least, my) issues aren't with what's happening, it's how it's relayed.

@aristonsparta said in No Patch?:

@mmountain no, they shouldn’t.

They shouldn't slow it down? A 1 week release schedule is unsustainable (as has been proven). Ultimately it will damage the game.