Patch 1.22 released

[DrSpike]

Hmm, nice quick update.

[never satisfied]Now how about some info on balance tweaks, and when we can expect the remaining bugs to be fixed. [/never satisfied]

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by McMeadows
I'd say they keep dropping their patches on this forum as soon as they have it coded. This is probably the best community of testers. Within a few hours the bugs have been documented. Cheap and quick. In that way Firaxis can save some money they can invest in faster coding.

Therefore a faster good working patch for us all. I see "win-win" oppurtunities....

Perhaps so, but being a 'beta tester' for Firaxis for the umpteenth time is beginning to get on people's nerves.

[McMeadows]

It's in the nature of many to complain. I'd like to focus on the result.
Firaxis would in my opinion be better off to anounce it as non tested. I think there are enough people here that are keen on taking up the challenge to come first with a bug report (as they do now allready).

[Dauphin]

MarkG should charge for services rendered and use the cash to reduce the Poly subs rate.

[DrSpike]

I think Firaxis would rather get the service for free, alas.

[Robert]

If they're smart there's not even a need to tell us that we're working as beta testers for them.
Just release a patch as a beta, as they did several times already. While you intend to publish it as an official patch 1 week later.

See how the beta is received. If it's received wel, just higher the version number slightly, and release the same patch as 'official'.

If it's received very badly, nobody will blame them since it's a beta, and just fix the found bugs.

It's as easy as breathing!

They should really hire me.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by CyberShy
If they're smart there's not even a need to tell us that we're working as beta testers for them.
Just release a patch as a beta, as they did several times already. While you intend to publish it as an official patch 1 week later.

See how the beta is received. If it's received wel, just higher the version number slightly, and release the same patch as 'official'.

If it's received very badly, nobody will blame them since it's a beta, and just fix the found bugs.

They already did that. They tend to introduce new bugs into the release versions.

[Fried-Psitalon]

Originally posted by CyberShy
If they're smart there's not even a need to tell us that we're working as beta testers for them.
Just release a patch as a beta, as they did several times already. While you intend to publish it as an official patch 1 week later.

See how the beta is received. If it's received wel, just higher the version number slightly, and release the same patch as 'official'.

If it's received very badly, nobody will blame them since it's a beta, and just fix the found bugs.

It's as easy as breathing!

They should really hire me.

The problem is people WILL blame them regardless, and publishing the patch one week later means another week of people railing and complaining about how long it takes and how simple it is and how they could all do it wonderfully if they only had the chance.

It's really a no-win situation for gaming companies when this attitude is prevalent.

[Arrian]

At this point, I'm just happy they're still trying.

I've lower expectations, I guess.

-Arrian

[McMeadows]

as long as they would be frank about publishing a patch to have the community beta test it, I think the public opinion will be ok...

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Fried-Psitalon


The problem is people WILL blame them regardless, and publishing the patch one week later means another week of people railing and complaining about how long it takes and how simple it is and how they could all do it wonderfully if they only had the chance.

It's really a no-win situation for gaming companies when this attitude is prevalent.

To a great extent I agree..........I usually end up trying to defend companies. In this case it's the recent official post explaining why finishing this game is very low priority that have made me edge more towards criticism. I suspect this is true of many of those 'whining' in this and recent threads.

[Joseph]

Every time I download 1.22 and try to install, I received a message that the fille is incomplete.

[Robert]

Originally posted by Fried-Psitalon


The problem is people WILL blame them regardless, and publishing the patch one week later means another week of people railing and complaining about how long it takes and how simple it is and how they could all do it wonderfully if they only had the chance.

It's really a no-win situation for gaming companies when this attitude is prevalent.

Well, I think I didn't saw much people heavily complaining about the bugs in the beta-patches.
It was more one big hosana for Firaxis releasing beta patches.

Of course there always will be people who even require beta patches to be flawless. But hey, they are the true idiots!

But on the other hand, people who complain about bugs in official patches have a point.
Thus: first release a beta patch. Wait one week to see if any major bugs appear. If not, release it as an official patch.

Firaxis can be certain that if *we* find no major bugs in 1 week, no major bugs will be found at all.

[Wittlich]

Joseph, did you install v1.20 first prior to intalling v1.22?

[DrSpike]

Also make sure the 1.22 file was completely downloaded.