The Daily Update at the Com

[Elmar Bijlsma]

I wish I was joking.

I reckon you were over egging the pudding, painting anyone exasperated over the sound bug in a bad light. Atleast Phog had the good sense to apply his statement to the nebulous "some". You applied a blanket statement that I am confident doesn't bear scrutiny.

While true the patch was ready friday indeed however they didn't know that and took the weekend to test the patch and make sure there are not issues.
Luckily there doesn't seem to have been any issues but they didn't know that at the time.
Better to be safe then sorry I suppose.

Uhm, the "better safe then sorry method" was to upload the patch in advance, continue QA, then flick the switch to activate Steam update on the desired date. That way you don't get any last minute surprises.
Or, if the test found something, do not to flick the switch, fix, then re-upload.