115807-carbine-release-drop-3-this-tuesday

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Magic? No. It's the way software development works.


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Oh you got me!!! Such a snappy response to my food metaphor. I should be more careful when selecting them. Clearly my point was that making a pizza is the same as video game development, and not that prioritizing a mega-patch in place of fixing the core game systems first and foremost is the biggest concern.


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It wasn't intended to be a snappy response. I was intending to make the point that this idea that you can easily just ship partially finished products is flawed. It's the same for pizza and the same for source code. Yes, if you plan them and create them to be patched, you can make incremental changes. You still have to test these patches and incremental changes, though, and you have to test them as patches. This has not been done with any of the upcoming changes, so they can't just take the changes and toss them out there, even if people want their half of a pizza now. It just isn't cooked now matter how much people want it to be (QA is part of the cooking process).


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At this point, considering the QA bottleneck, any weekly patches would only get us a small portion of what people want while delaying the majority of the changes. So even if rune and pvp changes are ready, I am fine with waiting a few more weeks for those and getting the itemization, class, and stat changes with them.

This is something people miss. Going through code manually and migrating changes from the drop 3 baseline to the live baseline is probably the riskiest thing they can do for development, in terms of accidentally introducing new bugs. Which brings us back to the QA bottleneck.

Most of the coming systems have significant dependencies on each other. To trot out my over used example, you don't want to patch the rune slot enhancements in without the AP rebalance, because that would have people rerolling slots for AP and then AP getting nerfed but leaving those people stuck with their rerolled slots. I do agree that there are bits and pieces that can be moved out. I disagree that it would actually satisfy anyone, to have only the small bits and pieces. And I disagree  with the idea that they should be doing that for this patch specifically, because the QA bottleneck would mean a weekly patch with those bits and pieces would only delay the changes that everyone actually want.


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Agree with Opinion, something needs to be done to keep the game population interested another month until drop 3. The roster boss is wiping guilds left and right. Too bad too, I enjoyed this game. -Foo


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