XPac vs Patch

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I have no problem with them announcing an Xpack but i do have a problem with having to wait 5 months (and still counting) to fix the original game.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to think about it and seriously dampened my enthusiasm for any expansion.

Every time I cooment on threads like this Sapi locks them.

[HoreTore]

Where's the Gah! option?

Seriously, do you have any idea how you make a game at all? Let's see how it would be if they did it your way:

1. Original game released
2. Patches released for between half a year and a year
3. Only then beginning work on the expansion pack
4. Release the expansion pack, a couple of year after the bugs were fixed.

That's an EXTREMELY inefficient way of doing this. There would be a ton of people sitting around and twiddling thumbs. Say you have a staff of 100 men. 20 of those will be needed for bugfixing. What are the remaining 80 supposed to do? What do you want them to do? Twiddle thumbs, or working on an expansion? I say they should be working on an expansion or the next game in the series.

Seeing things as patch vs expansion, is, well, idiotic. They do both at the same time.

[Malcolm Big Head]

Gah.

They are working on a patch, an expansion pack, and Fast as a Shark. Have to keep the wheels rolling to make money.