Possible patch delay

[TheVedis]

But two months has been more of a minimum between significant patches. It was more than three months between 1.17 and 1.18, and about two and a half between 1.18 and 1.19, and 1.19 and 1.20.

Where do you get your numbers for the industry standard? Genuine question. If two months is considered "a rather fast pace", then the industry standard would be... two and a half? Three? Four? Rift has been delivering major patches on the low of end 4-6 weeks since it's launch in March, and I've always been under the impression the first few years of an MMOs life were much faster than three or four notable updates a year.

i dont know about him but i get my numbers from the massive ammount of mmos ive played

[ShinChuck]

i dont know about him but i get my numbers from the massive ammount of mmos ive played

Funny, I've played a massive amount too! A stalemate, then. So I ask again, as a genuine question, is there some hard data or resources out there?

[TheVedis]

Funny, I've played a massive amount too! A stalemate, then. So I ask again, as a genuine question, is there some hard data or resources out there?

yes
yuou can go to most of the game websites and look at patch release dates

problem is, not all games number them the way we do, and youll see quite a few who do the

1.1-1.2-1.3 and such for anything they release even the smallest hotfix so youll end up having to actualy go in and read the notes to be able to tell what it is patching

[ShinChuck]

yes
yuou can go to most of the game websites and look at patch release dates

problem is, not all games number them the way we do, and youll see quite a few who do the

1.1-1.2-1.3 and such for anything they release even the smallest hotfix so youll end up having to actualy go in and read the notes to be able to tell what it is patching

I've done that before, and Rift and Guild Wars both trounced FFXIV in terms of pace. It was a less than thrilling process of literally scouring years of patch notes, so I was curious if any of this data came from a source that had it already compiled over more MMOs over a significant amount of time. It appears as though that is not the case, so we're still working on anecdotal evidence when it comes to defining an industry standard.

Ah well, maybe I'll hunt down more stats over break, dig through a few more MMO's updates.

[Dreadnought]

whats with arrow to the knee? did a celebrity get shot by an arrow recently or something and it caused a stir? i gont get the reference.

[Leowilde]

whats with arrow to the knee? did a celebrity get shot by an arrow recently or something and it caused a stir? i gont get the reference.

Uncertain if it was a joke or not, but in case it wasn't... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vncIBREXCwU

[Dreadnought]

Uncertain if it was a joke or not, but in case it wasn't... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vncIBREXCwU

oh ok.
so its referring to crappy scripting from skyrim.
thanks.

[Griss]

Oh hey look 1.20 passed the QA test, patch tomorrow.

[Firon]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT and i am off work!!!

Edit and my g/f just slapped me for saying woot @ 5 in the morning ; ;

[Sephrick]

Is XIII-2 going to be some kind of Europop estro-fest like X-2 or is this a for real game?