City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Patch but no notes...... again?

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2009-05-05 07:21 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I know how you feel, but give them a break. City's team works really hard to try to churn out a ton of stuff for us as paying consumers. And plus they're all really really nice, and really cool, too. They DO try to get us that information (as vital as it is) in our hands as soon as possible,




BUT



You've gotta remember, they're trying to take this game to lengths MMO's have never gone before.


For giving us the ability to create our own missions and enemies, have dual builds, further personalize our builds with the Invention system, unlock the 5th costume slot, get mezzed without defensive toggles dropping, pick any Patron Power instead of just one, level up with a friend in a Pact, promote yourself out of SG/VG Leadership roles, participate in many many holiday events year round, and test out new content before it goes live in the Test server (ect. ect.)

Not to mention the new look for the webpage, new rewards for Veteran Milestones, and their constant direct involvement with our community.

I would say they deserve just a little slack in regards to timeliness with Patch Notes.



A teeny bit more...

 

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This is the third, maybe the fourth time in a row that I log into the game, it starts downloading a patch, yet there are no patch notes. It's got to be harder to code a patch than to write a few notes about it right? Why can't they get those notes up?

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Actually, they are harder than you might think. Patch notes are easy if there's one and only one person working on the code and that person has a good memory (or good note taking skills). Here, you have a whole team of devs writing notes. Those notes get sent to one of the mods (EMPulse?) who then needs to translate them into something resembling English and formated for a web page. Then they have to get posted up to the server.

Plus there's the whole priority thing - and notes aren't high on the list. With flame wars breaking out everywhere (even in this topic), there isn't as much time left to put into patch noting.