A Thursday live publish?
Wow, I'm surprised they pushed that build live. It didn't seem ready for Live servers yet.
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Media Blitz launching without Media Blitz? Epic fail if true.
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Delay Media Blitz. Delay Mother Mayhem. Get them right. I'll be happy running Keyes with people who never got a chance to see it and can enjoy it now. I'll get my badges, I'll get drops I can use on shiny new powers, and I'll have a great weekend.
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I for one, am happy to have trials delayed if it means changes to make them better. Dealing with a barely ready for primetime Keyes and all the ******** and non desire to run it that came with that, was a chore. It doesn't serve their efforts to release trials that aren't fully balanced and something people can enjoy. Trials that are too long and tedious piss people off, and waiting a couple months to see it fixed is not good, because it sets up a ton of preconceived notions that people then have to fight in order to get the inevitable revamps to be looked at with something other than scorn by players.
Delay Media Blitz. Delay Mother Mayhem. Get them right. I'll be happy running Keyes with people who never got a chance to see it and can enjoy it now. I'll get my badges, I'll get drops I can use on shiny new powers, and I'll have a great weekend. |
Also just a note, Mother Mayhem was never intended to go live with the Media Blitz patch.
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When people only test the things they like, and whatever's new and shiny, this is the result.
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To be fair to us:
1. Having to ask for TW access and level bumps inhibited testing. I didn't get nearly as much done as I probably could have.
2. I turned in two of the bugs on live. One was the problem with drop-downs/Collection not scaling right on Window Size < 100%, the other was logging in each time to borked UI layouts. I assume both of these were pushed-back to a later publish, but visible bugs like these generate a LOT of noise from players (and rightly so, imo).
If devs want/need testing, it seems to me the testing process needs to be fixed up a bit. Adding some auto-test fixtures for players (level bump, new capabilities like store items (TW)) would allow more people to test. Probably getting the character copy tool working would help also.
In my experience in software engineering, test inhibitors should be priority number one, and imo there are a few player side test inhibitors right now. Test inhibitors that don't get addressed mean that something(s) doesn't get tested.
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Edit: Well that was interesting.
Anyways back on subject, this little experiment failed big time and unless the development team likes working weekends, NCSoft/Paragon Studios should stick with patches to live on Tuesdays and weekly server backups and reboots on Thursdays.
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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It did? Did something crash after I finished playing earlier, because it seemed to be doing just fine.
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Now yes it would be the same list of problems if they pushed this to live on a Tuesday Vs a Thursday but with Thursday they only have one day to come up with an emergency "fix" for the most grievous of these problem before the weekend instead of three.
Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components
Tempus unum hominem manet
Oh, I used to be allergic to chocolate as well. In fact, when I was younger, I was pretty much allergic to EVERYTHING. Including eggs, chocolate, peanut butter, all forms of milk (including my own mother's milk..as an INFANT you pervs!), bees, cats, poison ivy (my reaction was far worse than most), ummm... I am sure there is more that I can't recall right off. The cabinet under my bathroom sink was always stocked with sample cases of liquid benadryl given to us by my pediatrician.
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i for one, am happy to have trials delayed if it means changes to make them better. Dealing with a barely ready for primetime keyes and all the ******** and non desire to run it that came with that, was a chore. It doesn't serve their efforts to release trials that aren't fully balanced and something people can enjoy. Trials that are too long and tedious piss people off, and waiting a couple months to see it fixed is not good, because it sets up a ton of preconceived notions that people then have to fight in order to get the inevitable revamps to be looked at with something other than scorn by players.
Delay media blitz. Delay mother mayhem. Get them right. I'll be happy running keyes with people who never got a chance to see it and can enjoy it now. I'll get my badges, i'll get drops i can use on shiny new powers, and i'll have a great weekend. |
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
![Big Grin](images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Anyone else get the feeling since Freedom that the design team is being overridden as to when updates are released? There is NO way a release this buggy should have got past QA and Devs. I'm beginning to suspect that deadlines are being pushed by marketing or someone else just to keep "new" things coming out...
I pray I'm wrong....
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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