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Pokey Dravon wrote:

J'Jor Da'Wg wrote:

Ummm...
Not saying this isn't faster then normal, it just isn't fast enough. But thats my opinion.

I always thought having a steady trickle of new content is better than giant releases, because everything is gradually added, and easier to balance than a giant injection of new stuff to try to balance with everything else at once. Thats what MAG did; changed a bunch of values at once, and then tried to figure out why it wasn't working, rather than individual buffs/ nerfs, or individual new items.

EVE gets 2 big packs of content every year, so once every 6 months. A 6 week cycle is exceptionally fast.

You can complain about the lack of speed when it comes to new content coming out, but consider this. Right now we get 4 weeks of development ever 6 weeks. If say they wanted to release a patch with 1 week of development, it would still take the one week of CCP testing and one week of Sony testing, meaning you would only get 1 week of development every 3 weeks. That's half as much content per week as the current development cycle. Sorry, but I'd rather be patient, wait a bit longer, and get more.


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J'Jor Da'Wg KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 648	Posted - 2012.08.02 17:45:00 - [1] - Quote My question is this... Sony and CCP touted that the restrictions on PSN updates for DUST were dramatically lowered to allow beta testing to occur at a normal pace, undelayed by Sony QA. What happened to that? Don't tell me its for release, because that would be just garbage. We need to be able to update daily if needed, why is it taking 2 months to get an update? The beta is stagnating right now. All we can do is argue about the grand vision of whether this is supposed to be a twitch strafe shooter or a slow tactical game.. Or whether dropships should be allowed to fall on your head and kill you... I dunno. Any other beta I played had weekly updates at least, outside of console that is. If Sony/CCP are aiming to allow PC style beta updates, they are not exactly doing it.
J'Jor Da'Wg KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 648	Posted - 2012.08.02 19:59:00 - [2] - Quote KryptixX wrote: J'Jor Da'Wg wrote: My question is this... Sony and CCP touted that the restrictions on PSN updates for DUST were dramatically lowered to allow beta testing to occur at a normal pace, undelayed by Sony QA. What happened to that? Don't tell me its for release, because that would be just garbage. We need to be able to update daily if needed, why is it taking 2 months to get an update? The beta is stagnating right now. All we can do is argue about the grand vision of whether this is supposed to be a twitch strafe shooter or a slow tactical game.. Or whether dropships should be allowed to fall on your head and kill you... I dunno. Any other beta I played had weekly updates at least, outside of console that is. If Sony/CCP are aiming to allow PC style beta updates, they are not exactly doing it. would you rather them rush an unfinished build with a bunch of glitches? for you to expect new content every week is just ridiculous. it will be put out when its ready. Stock fanboy response. It isn't unreadonable to expect a new item every week on PC. I am not askin for a giant build every week, just SOMETHING new to test. IMO, if that can't happen, then the PSN restrictions "victory" was more for media coverage than for its actual value.
J'Jor Da'Wg KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 648	Posted - 2012.08.02 20:51:00 - [3] - Quote Ummm... Not saying this isn't faster then normal, it just isn't fast enough. But thats my opinion. I always thought having a steady trickle of new content is better than giant releases, because everything is gradually added, and easier to balance than a giant injection of new stuff to try to balance with everything else at once. Thats what MAG did; changed a bunch of values at once, and then tried to figure out why it wasn't working, rather than individual buffs/ nerfs, or individual new items.
J'Jor Da'Wg KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 648	Posted - 2012.08.02 21:21:00 - [4] - Quote Pokey Dravon wrote: J'Jor Da'Wg wrote: Ummm... Not saying this isn't faster then normal, it just isn't fast enough. But thats my opinion. I always thought having a steady trickle of new content is better than giant releases, because everything is gradually added, and easier to balance than a giant injection of new stuff to try to balance with everything else at once. Thats what MAG did; changed a bunch of values at once, and then tried to figure out why it wasn't working, rather than individual buffs/ nerfs, or individual new items. EVE gets 2 big packs of content every year, so once every 6 months. A 6 week cycle is exceptionally fast. You can complain about the lack of speed when it comes to new content coming out, but consider this. Right now we get 4 weeks of development ever 6 weeks. If say they wanted to release a patch with 1 week of development, it would still take the one week of CCP testing and one week of Sony testing, meaning you would only get 1 week of development every 3 weeks. That's half as much content per week as the current development cycle. Sorry, but I'd rather be patient, wait a bit longer, and get more. Truth... Mostly I am just QQing against the need to have Sony QA it, I would rather that only CCP QA'd it and then pushed it out, but thats living in a perfect world I suppose. Eh. I was in a bad mood from dying to a remote explosive that was thirty feet away... no joke.