Are we still in BETA?Follow

I have a feeling that I paid $50 to beta test this game. Eversince I brought this game... EQ2 been down every day for the one hour updates. Everyday when I sign on I see things that got updated or nerf. How come a game/product that's official released to the public need to update and renew of it's content DAILY?

/agree with dragon. Seriously, take that one hour to call your mom or see the sun. I didn't realize just how fresh the air is outside of walls.

Of course i'm kidding.

I think it's hard for any computer games to release without any bug. It would take too much effort and money and no single company would do that. How smooth a game should be such that it could be released? I don't know. But as Dragon says, the fact that they are upgrading it frequently means at least they are trying to give us a better game.

No. Everything that changes IS progress. It is merely whether it is positive or negative progress.

But the point is valid.

Yes we should expect constant patching and modifications. No amount of testing can prepare the game for exposure to tens of thousands of players and all the cunning tricks they can get up to.

Also like any military campaign it is always planned to fight the last war. They came up with ways to combat the macroing and exploits that were used in EQ. Unsurprisingly to evryone except SoE the devious little toads who write these things have found ways to work in EQ2.

Add to that the fact that there is an inevitability of breaking something else the moment you fix something and we have this to look forward to for a long time yet.

They are fire-fighting. It is inevitable and not particularly hard to cope with. They always say "down for an hour" but are often back up in less than 15 minutes.

An uncharitable person might suppose that they had the same godawful memory leaks on the serverside that they have so kindly given us in the client forcing a daily reboot.

Actually they aren't down for much longer than 15-30 minutes (atleast on the server I'm on). I think they give the hour notice for a little wiggle room.

It took me a little while to get used to it, coming from FFXI, but I'd much rather the server be down once a day for a brief period each day to reboot and address bugs than have to wait for a update.


Edited, Sat Jan 22 14:21:04 2005 by Bhobster

It's better than some games (without mentioning any by name) where people BEG for this kind of updating and go weeks if not months before bugs get fixed. :)

The daily reboot will never go away. If seems to be policy for all of their newer games. SWG does it as well.

Edited, Sun Jan 23 11:31:25 2005 by vostik