Issue #3: please supply at least a very rough date

Plasma · 11-10-2004 03:41 PM

Phrase it as tenatively as you like. But I'm just wondering if #3 is expected, say, 'hopefully by Christmas', or something.

_Laz_ · 11-10-2004 03:48 PM

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Phrase it as tenatively as you like. But I'm just wondering if #3 is expected, say, 'hopefully by Christmas', or something.

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"When it's done"

(Hey, there had to be at least one of these responses, right? )

Clintonian · 11-10-2004 03:48 PM

This company doesn't give themselves deadlines for Updates, except to release them on a roughly quarterly basis. The last update was 9/16/04. Do the math and factor in holidays.

ForarWeiler · 11-10-2004 03:53 PM

Clintonian is onto something here; the updates have (thus far) been every three months or so. That'd put #3 on the live servers around the middle of december.

Which is just in time to build a little more hype before the Christmas shopping season has fully swung down (hell, depending on the person you're talking to, it's near the height of said season).

Seems like a perfect time to me. DVD edition out in the middle of this month to get it back on shelves, and the third issue with new stuff to draw back old players and bring in new ones a month later.

MasterHung · 11-10-2004 03:56 PM

yeah my guess was sometime in dec. hopefully

Delvac · 11-10-2004 04:15 PM

Agreed, if you look at it, middle of december makes fo rthe xmas rush, then possibly march for the rest of the epics to tide us over till COV in may/june.

That's all just supposition on my part though.

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Clintonian · 11-10-2004 04:26 PM

Are you assuming CoV being released in May/June? Many people are assuming CoV beta in May/June...

Runestar · 11-10-2004 05:47 PM

It's been my experience that game companies take the month of Decemeber off with updates. Too many vactions and the like. If I had to make a guess I'd say it would be dropping next week. But that's purely hypothetical.

_UBV_ · 11-10-2004 06:11 PM

"It's coming tomorrow at 4:28pm EST! I promise!"

LaserJesus · 11-10-2004 06:27 PM

I'm thinking It'll hit test around the end of this month.

Clintonian · 11-10-2004 06:27 PM

The dev's aren't going to drop Update 3 on without it going through the Test Server. They didn't even do the Halloween event without it passing through the Test Server.

Mattman · 11-10-2004 06:31 PM

It's tentatively scheduled for sometime between tomorrow and the heat death of the Universe. Plan accordingly.

Kamaitachi · 11-10-2004 06:37 PM

It's actually a really bad idea for a company to give release dates for updates. You should've seen what happened to Blizzard when they were making their biggest (1.10) patches for Diablo 2 and Warcraft III. Everytime they gave a date for something and were off by a little, the people on the forums went nuts on them.

Statesman_NA · 11-10-2004 06:39 PM

Best I can say is...soon.

LaserJesus · 11-10-2004 06:53 PM

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Best I can say is...soon.

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For a man who's lived for over 100 years, soon could be your next birthday.

ajmstilt · 11-10-2004 06:53 PM

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Best I can say is...soon.

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soon?!

SOON!

what kind of answer is that?

...at least you didn't say "when it's ready"

I keed, I keed, :P

So after thanksgiving but before chistmas? sounds right?

Teux_ · 11-10-2004 06:56 PM

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soon?!

SOON!

what kind of answer is that?

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A vague one...

And probably the best we're gonna get for now.

If Cryptic keeps to their 2/3 month schedule, we should see Issue 3 on test within 2 weeks, and probably released (pending any major bugs, hopefully) in mid December.

Arcanaville · 11-10-2004 07:18 PM

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It's tentatively scheduled for sometime between tomorrow and the heat death of the Universe. Plan accordingly.

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Extreme exaggeration. It is almost certainly scheduled for testing on the test server some time between now and four billion years from now, when the sun will expand into a red giant, vaporize the oceans, and strip the atmosphere from the earth.

Go live is scheduled for the following tuesday.

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Plasma · 11-10-2004 07:34 PM

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Best I can say is...soon.

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That's a lot easier to misinterpret and be disappointed about than almost any concrete answer

Mattman · 11-10-2004 07:49 PM

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It's tentatively scheduled for sometime between tomorrow and the heat death of the Universe. Plan accordingly.

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Extreme exaggeration. It is almost certainly scheduled for testing on the test server some time between now and four billion years from now, when the sun will expand into a red giant, vaporize the oceans, and strip the atmosphere from the earth.

Go live is scheduled for the following tuesday.

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AnotherDeadHero · 11-10-2004 08:18 PM

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what kind of answer is that?

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That is a Statesmanian answer, or at least one of someone who works for the State department.

Place your bets now. $10 for "On the test server by thanksgiving"

Too bad the NBA has trademarked "I love this game" because its starting to fit CoH more and more.

Duiss · 11-10-2004 08:24 PM

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It's actually a really bad idea for a company to give release dates for updates. You should've seen what happened to Blizzard

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artphobia · 11-10-2004 08:33 PM

All we can wait for now is when this SOON becomes RSN.

RSN= Real Soon Now

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Vegashero · 11-10-2004 10:18 PM

LOL...why is it, anytime someone answers soon. All I can think of is "When will now be then?"

You know States reads these boards after posting that...seeing everyone squirm and laughs himself to sleep. Oh well...keeps me from being too bored at work

Stele · 11-11-2004 02:04 AM

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It's actually a really bad idea for a company to give release dates for updates. You should've seen what happened to Blizzard when they were making their biggest (1.10) patches for Diablo 2 and Warcraft III. Everytime they gave a date for something and were off by a little, the people on the forums went nuts on them.

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And a little company called Valve. And a moderately anticipated sequel to something called Half-Life. Remember when it had a release date of Sept. 30, 2003? And it's just now coming out this month... maybe.

Anyway, I hope it's on test for quite a while before going live. Listen to the players on the test forum and get those final bugs kinked out. Issue 2 wasn't exactly the smoothest patch I have ever seen in a game...