Topic: Dan, Harry--why is Activision sitting on the patch? (Read 20415 times)

Arcilte · « **Reply #80 on:** February 05, 2003, 04:46:28 pm »

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Cut the QA guys at Activision some slack. If they miss something, or if something that currently works is broken, we will be the first ones complaining here about how crappy the patch is. If it takes them an extra week to get it right, so be it.

This is true... but we have all seen the Read Me for the patch and it is not much different then the Beta Patch we saw a while back. Just makes you wonder what they are doing with it. (Hmmm.... now I'll think about it)

Dan Hagerty · « **Reply #82 on:** February 05, 2003, 05:28:00 pm »

Hey Guys, as David and others have mentioned, this patch (actually it's three patches - for US, UK and German versions) is in the final stages of Activision QA.

And the short answer to "why is it taking so long" boils down to the fact that, in order to insure that this patch fixes everything we say it does, and doesn't break anything new, we need to test every aspect of the game - single player and multiplayer skirmish, SP campaigns, tutorials, SP conquest and, of course, the D3. We also need to do this for the US regular, US Best Buy, German and UK versions of the game.

Fortunately, I can report that testing is going very well. We are looking to release all three patches shortly, possibly within the week, and assuming we don't find anything new.

I apologize for the delay. Your patience will soon be rewarded.

Cruis.In · « **Reply #84 on:** February 05, 2003, 06:21:52 pm »

Dan,

has sfc3 been doing well in the market sales wise?

Tulmahk · « **Reply #85 on:** February 05, 2003, 07:03:13 pm »

And people have already been complaining about the patch based only on the ReadMe.

I think Activision and Taldren have been doing an excellent job here. Remember the parade of patches for SFC2, many of which broke previously working things? I think they're hoping to avoid that this time around.

I'm very willing to wait. I don't want it now, I want it good.

Though weekly status reports being posted here wouldn't be a bad idea. It might aleviate some of the impatience.

Vortox · « **Reply #88 on:** February 06, 2003, 01:51:28 pm »

Thx Dan...that sure is good to know. Beting on all of SFC gamers, the excitement of getting the patch making the game even better is killing us. HA HA HA HA. So status report sure will be a good help.

Cruis.In · « **Reply #89 on:** February 06, 2003, 02:51:02 pm »

dont make promises you can't keep Dan.

are you a star trek fan Dan?

im glad it's not doing bad, you think in your opinion if you were running activision based on sfc3 sales numbers you would do a sequel? your opinion of course.

Subspace · « **Reply #90 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:09:02 pm »

man its nice to here something about it ..... & also im gald SFC3 is selling within the numbers you hoped

Aenigma · « **Reply #93 on:** February 06, 2003, 03:58:06 pm »

If it really were the last patch we would be extremely angry. The same thing happened with Armada 1 though, only got a 1.1 and 1.2 patch and that was just it. But i think the SFC community is a little bit more vocal, so i don't expect just two patches. Just don't believe 'rumors', they are false until they come true.

Koloth · « **Reply #94 on:** February 06, 2003, 04:01:20 pm »

I understand. This is why I asked the question to Dan for his comment (if any) about it. There have been situations where a rumor was the truth.

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