Why are we even here?

[Darkmoore]

The patch that hit Live today only sat here on Test for what, 2 or 3 days? C'mon guys, don't turn this into Star Wars: Galaxies where Test is only to take a look at the new stuff early. Make sure it is tested and tested well. These patches need to stay here at least a week, especially considering how few of us there really are here.

Ok, said my piece. Back to the game.

[Naiya]

from someone who works on a QA team:

Patches are on my plate for a week. They are on one test enviro until they pass all tests. Then we move the patch to a stage enviro and it sits there until it passes all the tests. Then we move it to the beta enviro.

During an actual beta, we patch daily at my job. All released patches do not overwrite previous patches. Often there are NEW fixes implemented with the new patch. Some of my testers are diligent enough that they actually duplicate our regression testing *with every patch**

Just because we get a patch today does not mean the previous patch is overwritten nor that all the changes will make it to live if they feel the testing process has not been adequate

*yes... I do full regression on every patch that is released. Sorry Sigil, habits die hard

[Venti]

Speaking to Namdarie it sounds like they are still in semi-beta/crisis mode. Their long term plans probably are to have patches on the dev server for a week and the test server for another week or two before live, but with so much broken or needing to be implemented they are having to rush things. Once the game stabalizes their patch cycles will probably match MMO norms.

Even WoW and EQ2 where rushing out patches very fast the first couple of months.

[Darkmoore]

Thank you for allaying my fears guys. Much appreciated.