Where's the patch?

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » December 20, 2005, 4:45 pm

WTF!?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » December 20, 2005, 5:36 pm

I never expected it before the holiday. I actually wouldn't be shocked to see it in January.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » December 20, 2005, 5:47 pm

It's Blizzard.

Quick patch, Long patch, quick patch. LOOOOOONG patch.

I know it's been close to 3 months now since 1.8 has been out cause I've played my free month of EQ2 and am about to be charged for the 2nd time now, and I played 1.8 for a solid 2-3 weeks for sure.

I just looked it up. Patch 1.8 was released on Oct 11thclose to 10 weeks ago.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » December 20, 2005, 8:05 pm

To quote Tigole:

We were hoping to Patch on December 13th but we all agreed that 1.9 was not ready yet and still needed some tuning and bug fixing. So we made a few changes and fixes and released those builds on the PTR. Currently, the PTR builds are pretty close to what we're going to release. However, because of the changes we've made internally, the PTR build is now out of date. We don't really gain anything by leaving an old build on the PTR. We're probably going to bring the PTR's up one last time to make sure the sync bug is fixed and then bring them down again.

It is unlikely that we will patch during the end of Decemeber. We like to have "all hands on deck" when we patch so we can respond to emergency issues as quickly as possible. Players in North America tend to think of it as "patch day" but for those of us at Blizzard, it's more like "patch week". One day we patch Europe, the next the US, then Korea, then China etc. -- all on different days (this is done so that we don't bring down their servers during primetime).

If you wanted an ETA, my best guess would be very shortly after New Years.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » December 22, 2005, 5:59 pm

Frankly, infrequent updates was one of the reasons I quit WoW in the first place.

A patch every 3 months and an expansion every 2 years does not equate to dynamic content to me.

miir · Post by **miir** » December 22, 2005, 6:02 pm

Animalor wrote:Frankly, infrequent updates was one of the reasons I quit WoW in the first place.

A patch every 3 months and an expansion every 2 years does not equate to dynamic content to me.

That's one thing I liked a lot about EQ2.
Monthly updates.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » December 22, 2005, 6:24 pm

EQ2's put in a lot of features that I really liked in WoW while keeping the game challenging for the folks that want a challenge. I really enjoy that there are groups of people that group solely for the purpose of killing stuff and gaining experience. I've been playing this for 3 months now and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.

miir · Post by **miir** » December 22, 2005, 6:33 pm

Animalor wrote:EQ2's put in a lot of features that I really liked in WoW while keeping the game challenging for the folks that want a challenge. I really enjoy that there are groups of people that group solely for the purpose of killing stuff and gaining experience. I've been playing this for 3 months now and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.

Outside of instances, nobody seems to group in WoW.
Haven't really played EQ2 much in the past while but they seem to have struck a nice balance between solo and group content in outdoor areas...

cid · Post by **cid** » December 22, 2005, 6:41 pm

miir wrote:
Animalor wrote:EQ2's put in a lot of features that I really liked in WoW while keeping the game challenging for the folks that want a challenge. I really enjoy that there are groups of people that group solely for the purpose of killing stuff and gaining experience. I've been playing this for 3 months now and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon.
Outside of instances, nobody seems to group in WoW.
Haven't really played EQ2 much in the past while but they seem to have struck a nice balance between solo and group content in outdoor areas...

People group a lot more on PVP servers.

miir · Post by **miir** » December 22, 2005, 6:44 pm

cid wrote:People group a lot more on PVP servers.

Not that I have noticed in 100+ levels.

Most.... well all of my Rogue's HKs are solo ganks.

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » December 22, 2005, 8:14 pm

Drinsic Darkwood wrote:To quote Tigole:

We were hoping to Patch on December 13th but we all agreed that 1.9 was not ready yet and still needed some tuning and bug fixing. So we made a few changes and fixes and released those builds on the PTR. Currently, the PTR builds are pretty close to what we're going to release. However, because of the changes we've made internally, the PTR build is now out of date. We don't really gain anything by leaving an old build on the PTR. We're probably going to bring the PTR's up one last time to make sure the sync bug is fixed and then bring them down again.

It is unlikely that we will patch during the end of Decemeber. We like to have "all hands on deck" when we patch so we can respond to emergency issues as quickly as possible. Players in North America tend to think of it as "patch day" but for those of us at Blizzard, it's more like "patch week". One day we patch Europe, the next the US, then Korea, then China etc. -- all on different days (this is done so that we don't bring down their servers during primetime).

If you wanted an ETA, my best guess would be very shortly after New Years.

I'm patching Test today to see the new graphic on Blessing of Protection (@#$%&), and while the files are installing... the first line in the patch message is:

World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.9.0 (2006-01-03)

So, I guess we all patch on the 3rd!