Any OFFICIAL Word on Day One patch?

**wasaaabi** · November 08, 2006, 04:38 PM

I know ER has posted that CA will be releasing a patch on "Day One", but I've yet to see any confirmation of that from anyone with a SEGA or CA business card. Has anyone seen an official pronouncement on this?

**AlfonsoVIII** · November 08, 2006, 04:51 PM

Wait until Friday, then we will know. No patches have ever been pre-announced.

**God-Emperor of Mankind** · November 08, 2006, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by wasaaabi

I know ER has posted that CA will be releasing a patch on "Day One", but I've yet to see any confirmation of that from anyone with a SEGA or CA business card. Has anyone seen an official pronouncement on this?

Yes Palamedes the CA member was the first one to mention this.

**Laverick** · November 08, 2006, 05:41 PM

yea i remember lusted asking someting about this today at sega but im not quite sure what was said

**ProudNerd** · November 08, 2006, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by wasaaabi

I know ER has posted that CA will be releasing a patch on "Day One", but I've yet to see any confirmation of that from anyone with a SEGA or CA business card. Has anyone seen an official pronouncement on this?

a CA employee, Palamedes spilled allot of information in a surprising post a while ago he mentioned that a patch woudl be made available on the same day as the release to correct a problem with the AI stalling and not attacking you if you ddin't move to engage it.

**Germanicus75** · November 09, 2006, 11:24 AM

On the subject of patches, I thought these comments made at the .com were very good and worth repeating here:

"That's right - patches don't feed directly into the revenue stream, so companies don't like to pay for their development.

Also, some companies still have this old-school perception that releasing patches hurts their image, because it means admitting that mistakes were made. They haven't caught on yet that people today consider patches a sign of ongoing commitment by the developers, and that the days of fire-and-forget software development are a thing of the past."

And:

"They need to understand (and maybe they do already--Activision was worse about this) that TW fans are more long-term than players of a lot of other games. It's not that we're better, but we're a lot more likely to stick with these games for years than we are to play for five months and then drop it forever.

So patches actually help keep a lot of players, I'd think. Look at Paradox, the guys who make Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron--they do the same thing. Extensive patching has gathered a strong community.

Of course, I have none of the demographics, so I'm just talking theory. Either way, I hope there's a more liberal policy regarding support money. It just builds more loyalty for CA and Sega."

**ProudNerd** · November 09, 2006, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Germanicus91

On the subject of patches, I thought these comments made at the .com were very good and worth repeating here:

"That's right - patches don't feed directly into the revenue stream, so companies don't like to pay for their development.

Also, some companies still have this old-school perception that releasing patches hurts their image, because it means admitting that mistakes were made. They haven't caught on yet that people today consider patches a sign of ongoing commitment by the developers, and that the days of fire-and-forget software development are a thing of the past."

And:

"They need to understand (and maybe they do already--Activision was worse about this) that TW fans are more long-term than players of a lot of other games. It's not that we're better, but we're a lot more likely to stick with these games for years than we are to play for five months and then drop it forever.

So patches actually help keep a lot of players, I'd think. Look at Paradox, the guys who make Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron--they do the same thing. Extensive patching has gathered a strong community.

Of course, I have none of the demographics, so I'm just talking theory. Either way, I hope there's a more liberal policy regarding support money. It just builds more loyalty for CA and Sega."

Indeed i always like to see patches for a game its nice to knwo that companies care about their fans enough to patch them

**edmont** · November 09, 2006, 02:48 PM

People!Most of the games I know must be fixed even MTW2,there been strange things already but I was to tired and drunk by excitment to give accurate account at the moment.

**drak10687** · November 09, 2006, 02:56 PM

I dont know, if you really made a mistake, you should patch it, but I feel patches can be used as a way to push the first release earlier. They can just say: oh, its ok if we messed up somewhere, we'll just patch it. Well, I'm sure thats not completely ture, but patches do give a bigger degree of freedom to game companies. whether they actually think of them as a "fall back" option I dont know, but the possibility is there.

**edmont** · November 09, 2006, 05:10 PM

Sieges doesn't work AI just waiting not attacking.

**italiano** · November 09, 2006, 05:16 PM

edmont, you might want to wait and see if the patch helps instead of repeating yourself.

**wasaaabi** · November 10, 2006, 11:19 AM

See this thread...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=67930

Apparently someone in SEGA is saying there are no plans for an immediate patch...