Blizzard should do monthly content patch for the following reasons:
- Small patches would have less bugs
- People wouldnt complain about time gating
- It would go well with subscription model
Like Asherons Call?
it was fun and it was great and really kept a story moving forward.
How is this any different
why would people not complain?
why would there be less bugs?
That’s not how software development works. There will always be bugs in software, even back when software and games were created on something physical there were bugs. (Remember all those glitches you loved to take advantage of to make games easier. Those were bugs)
Monthly content would in other games is generally terrible. I’d rather Blizzard take their time and develop the content rather then try to rush it in order to sustain some unrealistic monthly goal.
Given the bugs that ship with patches now, how would monthly content improve that?
If anything, it’d make things worse!
I would rather they did less frequent content updates and invested in acquiring a brand new capable QA team
Personally I support twice weekly content patches though.
It is climate change, a lot of bugs have migrated to places they are not really known to exist in naturally
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Not fast enough. I want content patches weekly, no daily. That’ll keep the bugs way down and let me play uninterrupted by sleep.
OH! I know!!! Hourly patches!!!
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You do realize we currently get a patch every 2 months, right?
The current pace is already much faster and more frequent than the releases have been for most of the game’s history.
The faster pace also seems to coincide with players complaining about quality issues, but honestly I feel like players have always complained about the quality.
The monthly content to coincide with your subscription are the recurring seasonal events.
The main thing I’m seeing, is that this patch was really just three minor patches in a trenchcoat, spaced out/timegated so we don’t get it all at once.
Nightfall, Visions, and Dastardly Duos.
And honestly, it’s so buggy that I’m wondering what was even the point of frontloading all of this into a singular patch, anyway.
I think things would be more stable (I think, I don’t actually know) if they spaced them out into actual mini-patches anyway.
I’m not sure what packing all these events into one patch really serves- does it help from the devs perspective? Maybe.
But that is what you are asking for?
A patch to be split up released monthly?
Me, personally? I think it’d be better than dumping it all out and telling us we can’t enjoy 66% of the content until a later date, anyway lol.
I’d rather have things given to us piecemeal once they are playable, yes.
how is this different than
“here is some content. you cant enjoy the next step until later”
which option did I describe?
This makes no sense. If you’re pushing for patches to be monthly, then you’re also pushing for stuff to not have enough time to cook for the bugs to be taken out. We see this as evidence in past patches where in Legion, SL and DF, there was less bugs within each content patch, where in TWW, there is more bugs due to more frequency to patches and less times for things to be properly settled.
Monthly gate updates?
We’d never finish anything.
You know the infinity of mirrors you see when you look into a mirror facing a mirror?
Imagine that but time gates. You’d stand in line and wait to be next in line to wait.
Idk but I preferred this one:
Seems like coming back to constantly maintain stuff just isn’t working out, as was seen with Nightfall and Ion talking about how he’s ‘failed us’ recently.
However their pipeline currently is, it’s not working out for the best. We’ve clearly had better in the past.
The mid season patches are getting bigger, my point was that maybe it would be better for them if they did smaller more frequent patches. Anyway it cant get much worse than 11.1.5 in terms of bugs.
If anything they would have more due to lack of testing time. Not that thier longer patch times dont have bugs but the shor5 ones would be even more riddled with bugs.