Age of Conan

I admit, I am a video game and MMO novice; I have only beee playing games since the ZX81 came out, and MMOs since UO (although I only dallied with that). My main MMO experience is limited to EQ2, WOW, CoX, LOTRO, DDO, POTBS, GW, and Vanguard. I in no way consider MMOs to be my main video game experience. I have installed countless patches in RTS, FPS etc.

So, from this admittedly blinkered perspective, I I have never experienced a game in which patches were quite so consistently poor - in that they broke so much with every patch, and made such elemental mess-ups (improving catacombs.. oops - no one can actually zone in, there's an oversight).

But I am certainly willing to be corrected. Has any game in history been quite so abysmal at patching?

I believe they are trying to get the Golden Joystick award for worst patches in a MMO in 2008. And I will admit that I would have to vote for them on that since they do such a wonderful job of breaking things.

In break fix they have the break down they just need to workon the fix part.

Originally posted by Lance08

I believe they are trying to get the Golden Joystick award for worst patches in a MMO in 2008. And I will admit that I would have to vote for them on that since they do such a wonderful job of breaking things.

In break fix they have the break down they just need to workon the fix part.

You mean this? 

Originally posted by markyturnip

I admit, I am a video game and MMO novice; I have only beee playing games since the ZX81 came out, and MMOs since UO (although I only dallied with that). My main MMO experience is limited to EQ2, WOW, CoX, LOTRO, DDO, POTBS, GW, and Vanguard. I in no way consider MMOs to be my main video game experience. I have installed countless patches in RTS, FPS etc.

So, from this admittedly blinkered perspective, I I have never experienced a game in which patches were quite so consistently poor - in that they broke so much with every patch, and made such elemental mess-ups (improving catacombs.. oops - no one can actually zone in, there's an oversight).

But I am certainly willing to be corrected. Has any game in history been quite so abysmal at patching?

Anarchy Online, also by Funcom.

Surely there has been.

On another note, how is it that after not logging in for a month, today I patch and log in jus to look around. And to my wonder I am now running 20 fps slower than I was before?

rofl

Originally posted by Byrom

Surely there has been.

On another note, how is it that after not logging in for a month, today I patch and log in jus to look around. And to my wonder I am now running 20 fps slower than I was before?

 

rofl

 

Thats part of their master plan to slow down leveling to buy them time. So the programmers they hired part time from the college work program get their first semester finished.

Goes with doubling all mob health a month ago and lowering attack power 3 weeks ago.

It is rather amusing isnt it. At least it adds another element to the game.....You and your guild can play *find what was broken in the patch* game. Sure is more interesting than their crafting for eg.

anarchy online patch 12.6 was deployed on a friday as the team went home and borked pretty much everything.

that was a funny patch.

 You said you played WOW and yet you ask if any games patches were poor?

 For the first year and beyond anytime Blizz patched the game it took 2 to 3 weeks to get the world server working properly. This was virtually every patch. Also they created lag, caused players to get disconnected and caused general havoc till they repaired it.

 I was on countless raids when all of a sudden half of the 40 man party would be disconnected.

 How quickly we all forget.

Originally posted by peaquop

 You said you played WOW and yet you ask if any games patches were poor?

 

 For the first year and beyond anytime Blizz patched the game it took 2 to 3 weeks to get the world server working properly. This was virtually every patch. Also they created lag, caused players to get disconnected and caused general havoc till they repaired it.

 

 I was on countless raids when all of a sudden half of the 40 man party would be disconnected.

 

 How quickly we all forget.

Well if WoWs overall stability was the same as AoC then the reason why AoC flops and WoW didnt must be that AoC is not only suffering from "normal mmo starter bugs" and "normal mmo starting instability". There must be something more. I guess AoC plainly sucks in all areas that are even remotely important to players.