360 launcher/patcher?

[Tzar of kaos]

if you happen to get some time, i would love a link to the post/video where they say that!

Check on you tube : IGN "one hour with Defiance".

[droppinwobbles]

Check on you tube : IGN "one hour with Defiance".

hmm i watched that whole vid and i didn't hear anything about being able to bypass MS QA, maybe i missed it.

[Tzar of kaos]

You will need a Xbox live gold account,and you won't be able to bypass.But Trion deals with Microsoft (and Sony i guess) to get updates as fast as possible...and there will be a day 1 patch....

[Vigilance]

This is a good question but I can only answer using my own speculation and logic. I assume minor patches will be applied via the Defiance servers directly though Trion Worlds rather than through 3rd party firmware, in other words, a strictly in game update. As for large scale patches and major content add-ons, I believe that 3rd party updates will be implimented through their own specific interfaces such as an Xbox 360 Dashoboard Update upon launching Defiance or a Playstation Home Screen Update prompt upon starting Defiance. All we can do is wait and see.

[Nervusbreakdown]

This is good new for everybody because if they can do this then I am hoping they will make new MMORPGs for the consoles using the same formula.

[droppinwobbles]

MMO's just require so many updates and so frequently i can't see MS or sony's QA EVER being fast enough. it just worries me. from my understanding a publisher/dev submits the update to microsoft and has no idea how long they might test it for.

I just think that to avoid problems and cut out the middleman.. it would be a vary good idea to use a launcher and do all possible patches thru that the way Square Enix does with FF11

[Dead_Phoenix]

alot of changes/fixes will be server side. so it wont require patching so much.

thats how they are getting around alot of this

[DEL]

Wow, Really..? Can you give me that in english, please...?

LOL whent over my head to

[DEL]

alot of changes/fixes will be server side. so it wont require patching so much.

thats how they are getting around alot of this

right got that and thaks 4 your help with ark codes !!!

[Major Nelson]

what do you think, will defiance use a inbetween patcher on 360 like FFXI does with playonline? it makes since to avoid MS update rollout costs, and it allows patches to bypass microsofts patch QA which sometimes takes forever. i REALLY hope it has a patcher.

basically when certification wasnt nede for a game developers could put malicous content into a games patch so thats why microsoft has to do it now. and certification can take up to a month depending on microsofts digression and traffic. but apparently for this game certification is skipped and is released when trionworlds releases it. this allows much much more advantages for this game. since certification is quite costly now trionworlds can release extra *free* game content like more weapons and vehicles types and basically have costant updates for this game allowing dynamic gameplay that coincides with the tv show.