Hotfixes: In Addition to Content Patches

[Balbanes]

So drawing from my previous MMO experience, I was wondering what might help the playerbase feel a little more trusting and at-ease with how things are progressing for our game.

Hotfixes
http://ffxiv.zam.com/wiki/Updates_%28FFXIV%29 <---clicky Here is a list of every single patch FFXIV has ever had.
Now as we all know, we're tentatively on a 2 patch-per-month schedule. One is generally a large content patch, the other includes tweaks/system changes. However both of these patches include things that could be pushed out in smaller, more frequent doses.

My suggestion? What if we had "Hotfix" patches? These patches would be small, frequent changes and tweaks and bug fixes to the game. Once these tweaks have been programmed, tested and verified, push them out for the players to 1) benefit from the changes and 2) help reassure folks that the wheels are turning over there in the XIV studio.

Save the major content additions for their own large, monthly patches. Get us the minor changes in more frequent, smaller doses.

[Kurokikaze]

I can agree with this. It's how other companies handle bugs and balance fixes instead of making players wait till the next patch.

It's funny but things like the SP changes and some changes that were done to enmity could have all been hotfixes.

[Ava]

Hotfixes would be great, but something tells me their back-end technology isn't capable of such a thing. =/

[Akira_Tenshi]

The less updates we have to download the better. The stupid downloader is mega slow.

[Kurokikaze]

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seriously wtf.

[Renshi]

Nah, wheels are already going. We just have to wait to mid-june, which is far, but near.
And I don't think people likes little updates sometimes. From what I've seen, every time there has been a minor update, some players were screaming for more.

Let them do their job =)

[Balbanes]

Nah, wheels are already going. We just have to wait to mid-june, which is far, but near.
And I don't think people likes little updates sometimes. From what I've seen, every time there has been a minor update, some players were screaming for more.

Let them do their job =)

Nobody believes that the wheels are indeed turning more than I do And I'm far from one of the players screaming for more. I just think this would help alleviate some of the negative views of the dev team's mission to turn the game around. More of a PR thing, really.
But, more frequent updates would also be nice in and of themselves

[Nuru]

Although it would make it seem like the wheels are turning, people generally care more about what the patches entail. The hotfixes are nice and the bugs need to go, I'm all for this idea, because bugs should gone as soon as possible.

[Jennestia]

Hotfixes would be great, but something tells me their back-end technology isn't capable of such a thing. =/

If they can patch the game they can do "hotfixes" -- patching is all the same no matter how big/small/quick/etc.

[Ava]

If they can patch the game they can do "hotfixes" -- patching is all the same no matter how big/small/quick/etc.

Hotfixes aren't patches. In wow, hotfixes were streamed straight onto live servers with no patching. I would assume this is the same thing the OP was thinking, I don't know who else does hotfixes.