So there's another "huge" patch coming at the end of the month?

So I've seen a few posts saying there is a huge patch coming at the end of the month now and they are banking on that to be the saving grace for what's going on. Sounds like last patch deja vu to me but regardless, my main question is why are they waiting weeks to compile monster sized patches instead of just releasing smaller patches and hotfixes to address issues sooner? Huge patches just tend to create a lot of problems in game anyway when all that stuff hits at once. Plus I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to have some smaller issues, or even one or two big ones, hit with a small patch instead of having to wait weeks for the fixes. ESPECIALLY on the release of a game when an mmo nees the most attention and in a quick fasion. They need to take a hint from their brothers across the street working on RIFT, look at the patch dates here:

http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...s/patch-notes/

The only information we've gotten is some sort of new content is coming the 29th, though The New Trion's definition of "content" is paper lanterns and fireworks.

We also know the previous plans were two bugfix patches biweekly, followed by the first DLC two weeks after that. If those old plans still hold true, we'll see the second bugfix patch the 29th.

I'm personally expecting more paper lanterns, but I'd love Trion to make a fool of me for expecting so little.

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Originally Posted by Schwa

The only information we've gotten is some sort of new content is coming the 29th, though The New Trion's definition of "content" is paper lanterns and fireworks.

We also know the previous plans were two bugfix patches biweekly, followed by the first DLC two weeks after that. If those old plans still hold true, we'll see the second bugfix patch the 29th.

I'm personally expecting more paper lanterns, but I'd love Trion to make a fool of me for expecting so little.

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I hope not that was an extremely lame *** update patch. It really did kick allot of ppl who thought it would be a beefy piece of content right in the teeth.

i want the yolo truck.

yes i know what it's called but i well always refer it to "yolo truck" cuase in the beta i did some every stupid and crazy things in that thing.

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Originally Posted by Schwa

The only information we've gotten is some sort of new content is coming the 29th, though The New Trion's definition of "content" is paper lanterns and fireworks.

We also know the previous plans were two bugfix patches biweekly, followed by the first DLC two weeks after that. If those old plans still hold true, we'll see the second bugfix patch the 29th.

I'm personally expecting more paper lanterns, but I'd love Trion to make a fool of me for expecting so little.

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So their plan was to have bug fix patches ever 2 weeks on a game launch? That makes zero sense, especially considering how buggy this game is. I could see every 2 weeks once things settle down and the game gets more stable without as many glaringly big issues, but not in this situation.

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Originally Posted by Booshy

So their plan was to have bug fix patches ever 2 weeks on a game launch? That makes zero sense, especially considering how buggy this game is. I could see every 2 weeks once things settle down and the game gets more stable without as many glaringly big issues, but not in this situation.

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Smaller server-side fixes are more frequent, but the big client-side bugfixes were originally slated to be biweekly.

We'll know if they can back their bark next week.

heres hoping they add stuff to the game that actually makes you belive your playing an mmo game....to me the game feels like a bunch of people playing a game through a private server,the mmo feeling is lacking in this game,something just feels off for me

It looks that way because Rift is actually a good game so they support it.

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Originally Posted by Booshy

[...]why are they waiting weeks to compile monster sized patches instead of just releasing smaller patches and hotfixes to address issues sooner? Huge patches just tend to create a lot of problems in game anyway when all that stuff hits at once.

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Go ask Sony and MS ... they limit the frequency of client side patches.
This would've been so much more awesome as a PC only release in so many ways.

I'm not blaming the console players, you suffer just as we do, but consoles hinder the games evolution.

The "huge patch" is for PS3. it's a partially fixed version of the mess PC an XBox got last week