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AS · 03-22-07, 12:10 PM

Just downloading the patch and wondering...

Can someone please explain to me UBI´s policiy? I mean let´s have a look at the facts:

-SH4 goes gold

-Beta Testers had had time enough to comment on the game

-the game is released, most people immediately complain about lacking sounds, bad interface etc.

-12-24 hours after the official (European) release date a 160Mb patch (!) PLUS a 150Mb German speech patch are released

Now it´s pretty obvious the patch had been developed some time BEFORE. What I conclude from this is that the game was released ALTHOUGH not all the programming was included. My simple question is: WHY the hell couldn´t they have waited just one day (or one week) in order to get the already patched file on DVD and into the box?

This is not meant to be a rhetorical question, I really don´t understand why a publisher would do this. I mean, they wouldn´t have sold LESS copies just because people had to wait ONE DAY LONGER...

So what´s that all about???

I´m waiting for the day when a patch is released two weeks before the actual game comes out :rotfl:

03-22-07, 12:10 PM	#13
AS 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 275 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	Just downloading the patch and wondering... Can someone please explain to me UBI´s policiy? I mean let´s have a look at the facts: -SH4 goes gold -Beta Testers had had time enough to comment on the game -the game is released, most people immediately complain about lacking sounds, bad interface etc. -12-24 hours after the official (European) release date a 160Mb patch (!) PLUS a 150Mb German speech patch are released Now it´s pretty obvious the patch had been developed some time BEFORE. What I conclude from this is that the game was released ALTHOUGH not all the programming was included. My simple question is: WHY the hell couldn´t they have waited just one day (or one week) in order to get the already patched file on DVD and into the box? This is not meant to be a rhetorical question, I really don´t understand why a publisher would do this. I mean, they wouldn´t have sold LESS copies just because people had to wait ONE DAY LONGER... So what´s that all about??? I´m waiting for the day when a patch is released two weeks before the actual game comes out :rotfl: __________________ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Oscar Wilde)