Why is the patch taking so long? - Page 2

Winders · 04-30-10, 04:10 AM

Whilst all of our replies are conjecture - I do believe and sincerely hope that UBI have decided to actually address the product issues with a decent patch.
After all SH5 and AC2 are the so called flag ship games of their new DRM system - and the DRM system is already taking too much flak - possibly in the case of SH5 because the game is so buggy.

What better way to help smooth the water (ahem) than to at least fix the game issues?

My 2 cents on the DRM - never had an issue with it and understand why such steps have to be taken....I believe we will see a lot more advanced DRM systems come our way in future games - but it will not go away.

What I would like to see is a 'fixed' game. I hope that is what UBI want to see too.

WM
OBD Software

04-30-10, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Winders

Whilst all of our replies are conjecture - I do believe and sincerely hope that UBI have decided to actually address the product issues with a decent patch.
After all SH5 and AC2 are the so called flag ship games of their new DRM system - and the DRM system is already taking too much flak - possibly in the case of SH5 because the game is so buggy.

What better way to help smooth the water (ahem) than to at least fix the game issues?

My 2 cents on the DRM - never had an issue with it and understand why such steps have to be taken....I believe we will see a lot more advanced DRM systems come our way in future games - but it will not go away.

What I would like to see is a 'fixed' game. I hope that is what UBI want to see too.

WM
OBD Software

Regarding DRM - I was talking to one of the Directors of the company I work at the other day (we develop software for the telecomms industry) We make our users put a dongle in their servers to allow our software to run. Interestingly enough, he said that in an ideal world we'd have an 'always on internet' solution where the remote software polled our licence server to ensure that it hasn't been stolen. Funnily enough our customers object (surprise, eh?) but I can see the point. If a rogue employee of one of our customers is able to steal the dongle, reverse engineer it and find out how to produce copies (and to be fair, it would be fairly easy to do). Then they'd be able to distribute out software around the world, thus losing the company money. If the company I work for loses money, suddenly people start losing jobs - Thats all this DRM system is, its a company wanting to protect their interests, I don't agree with it personally, I think there are better solutions. But I'd much rather a DRM solution, than a job centre solution!

SeamanStaines · 04-30-10, 04:49 AM

if they're happy to alienate legitimate customers by enforcing always-connected-to-internet DRM, i'm not going to lose any sleep if they're out of work due to minimal sales.

dongle is fine, its portable. if it gets cracked, issue update to game + dongle firmware in next update/patch.

Feuer Frei! · 04-30-10, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Westbroek

It'll get here when it gets here, what can ya do?

Not much, apart from more speculation, hypotheticals and the usual "what ifs". Oh, and did i mention conjecture?

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Originally Posted by severniae

Hm, I came in here to discuss the upcoming patch......Did I hit a wrong button?

Could easily be mistaken for something other than the upcoming patch...

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Originally Posted by Winders

Whilst all of our replies are conjecture - I do believe and sincerely hope that UBI have decided to actually address the product issues with a decent patch.

Indeed, all conjecture...so what is there to do?
Hypothesize even more? Speculate some more? Pose more what-ifs?
I cannot wait until the patch is out.
Not only because it will improve gameplay and address issues, but it will lighten the load on this server, having to deal with the saturation of Speculatives and Hypotheticals of some thread contents.
To address the O.P.'s question directly:
"Why is the patch taking so long"?
Who knows. I don't know the answer to that.

SteamWake · 04-29-10, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by gutted

If it fixed more than it broke.. it would still be better than nothing.

yea that would go over well

GoldenRivet · 04-30-10, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by McBeck

I think its to ensure the quality

uhhhh what are you smokin'?

pass it this way

04-30-10, 04:10 AM	#1
Winders Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: JHB South Africa Posts: 5 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Whilst all of our replies are conjecture - I do believe and sincerely hope that UBI have decided to actually address the product issues with a decent patch. After all SH5 and AC2 are the so called flag ship games of their new DRM system - and the DRM system is already taking too much flak - possibly in the case of SH5 because the game is so buggy. What better way to help smooth the water (ahem) than to at least fix the game issues? My 2 cents on the DRM - never had an issue with it and understand why such steps have to be taken....I believe we will see a lot more advanced DRM systems come our way in future games - but it will not go away. What I would like to see is a 'fixed' game. I hope that is what UBI want to see too. WM OBD Software __________________ WM OBD Software

04-30-10, 04:49 AM	#3
SeamanStaines Watch Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Canberra Posts: 30 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	if they're happy to alienate legitimate customers by enforcing always-connected-to-internet DRM, i'm not going to lose any sleep if they're out of work due to minimal sales. dongle is fine, its portable. if it gets cracked, issue update to game + dongle firmware in next update/patch.