Why is the patch taking so long?

[V.C. Sniper]

they r finishing up the 20% of the game that they haven't gotten the time to ship on launch date.

[gutted]

The problem with this delayed patch is that I.. and probably many others have completely lost interest in the game.

I've moved on to other things, and probably wont be back playing this again for quite some time.

[doomlordis]

1000% agree , I am getting annoyed and bored waiting.

[John Channing]

The essence of a good Sub Commander?









Patience.

JCC

[SabreHawk]

Originally Posted by John Channing

The essence of a good Sub Commander?









Patience.

JCC

The voice of wisdom,............and reason speaks. And speaks well.

Come on fellas, dont tell me you haven't anything else to do.
And if you truly do not, well you dont want the answer to that.

[BarjackU977]

Well, patience is a virtue.

But are you ready to wait forever? No, because that's not normal.
There is, somewhere, a balance between waiting patiently, and expecting a reasonable delivery time. This balance is not the same for everyone.

As for having other things to do, sure, everyone has. But then why bother buying the game in the first place, while we are at it?
Probably because people wanted to play and enjoy it? Certainly not because they wanted to do other things.

Originally Posted by SabreHawk

The voice of wisdom,............and reason speaks. And speaks well.

Come on fellas, dont tell me you haven't anything else to do.
And if you truly do not, well you dont want the answer to that.

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by John Channing

The essence of a good Sub Commander?





JCC

I'm sorry but I'm not at liberty to discuss that.

[Rip]

Originally Posted by robbo180265

I'm sorry but I'm not at liberty to discuss that.

I can neither confirm nor deny whether I am at liberty to discuss that.

[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

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]

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.

Originally Posted by SeamanStaines

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.

You can't blame the devs for this. It won't have been their decision to create the DRM. Its like saying that you should lose your job because one of the execs in your company made a controversial decision!

Plus, you have to remember that the DRM to be honest was never about stopping people pirating the game, its about stopping second hand sales. They want all the money from each Ubi game sold, if its sold second hand they get nothing. While I'm completely against it, I can see where they're coming from! DRM won't ever be removed until the Ubi execs consider that SHV has reached the end of its shelf life, don't delude yourself into thinking that it will be removed at any other stage.

[SeamanStaines]

Originally Posted by severniae

You can't blame the devs for this. It won't have been their decision to create the DRM. Its like saying that you should lose your job because one of the execs in your company made a controversial decision!

Plus, you have to remember that the DRM to be honest was never about stopping people pirating the game, its about stopping second hand sales. They want all the money from each Ubi game sold, if its sold second hand they get nothing. While I'm completely against it, I can see where they're coming from! DRM won't ever be removed until the Ubi execs consider that SHV has reached the end of its shelf life, don't delude yourself into thinking that it will be removed at any other stage.

who is blaming the devs?

where did i suggest it will be removed in the future?

[Feuer Frei!]

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?

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...

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.