update 15 release

[Thrudh]

Not purposely trying to troll or anything but it seems like it doesnt matter what day they bring the servers down, its a bank holiday in the UK. Seriously tho...if what I've read from other people that complained about the servers going down on a holiday is true than the UK must have like 100+ holidays a year.

Heh, I agree with this... EVERY update, someone complains it's a British bank holiday. Are your banks EVER open?

[krackythehoodedone]

Remaining UK Bank Holidays 2012


August 27th Monday. And that is it until Xmas.

[Grosbeak07]

Remaining UK Bank Holidays 2012


August 27th Monday. And that is it until Xmas.

Then update 15th will launch August 27.

[sephiroth1084]

Seriously doubt we're getting a release before mid-September at the earliest, more likely mid-October. There has been zero info from the devs regarding U15, Lama is down, and we're getting into August.

Meanwhile, the game has enough bugs to create a dozen of these:




A buggy, barely completable raid, and a fanbase sore from the obvious rush-job on the Xpack, which should have been PRISTINE as Turbine's first expansion ever. How are they going to get away with putting the next update on Lama for testing for 2 weeks and then bringing it live with even more bugs? Honestly, that happens...I may not even bother waiting for my subscription to lapse.

[djl]

Seriously doubt we're getting a release before mid-September at the earliest, more likely mid-October. There has been zero info from the devs regarding U15, Lama is down, and we're getting into August.

Meanwhile, the game has enough bugs to create a dozen of these:




A buggy, barely completable raid, and a fanbase sore from the obvious rush-job on the Xpack, which should have been PRISTINE as Turbine's first expansion ever. How are they going to get away with putting the next update on Lama for testing for 2 weeks and then bringing it live with even more bugs? Honestly, that happens...I may not even bother waiting for my subscription to lapse.

From what I've noticed, once something makes it to Lama very few changes are made to it prior to release in live. The vast majority of actual beta/bug testing occurs behind closed doors in Mournlands. Lama releases are mostly for players to trial-run content and give feedback about what they like or dislike. Occasionally, devs will respond to massively-unpopular changes in Lama such as the proposed Madstone nerf a long time ago. But mostly, what you see on Lama is what you will get.

And yes, I do very much hope U15 is postponed until September or later. Releasing it in August while so much of U14 is still broken would be a catastrophe. They've been playing Jenga with this game for a long time now, and the foundation has become quite wobbly. I think if they were to ignore the majority of broken things with U14 and rush out U15, the tower would finally collapse. There is a real chance the game would become largely unplayable with of the amount of buggy, broken content that another large-scale update featuring more quests and another raid would bring with it.

Honestly, at this point I think a fair number of people would be thankful if Turbine took down the raid and scrapped it, completely redesigning it from the ground up. There is nothing enjoyable about it. Between the bugginess, the horrid mechanics combining escort quests, boss kiting, and huge SP drains, and the lackluster rewards it's not only tedious and unrewarding to run but it's also a HUGE resource sink.

[pasrapport]

oh oh oh oh, oshikuru, oh oh oh oh, oshikuru, my oh my, he's a demon samurai....... who's that guy who had to die? oshikuru!
+1 if you can tell me where that is from

There are 2 references, first one is from Two and a half men and the other is from Big bang theory, this fictional anime was created by Chuck Lorre.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

What is a "UK bank holiday", actually ? This term is unknown to me.

[redspecter23]

Turbine is notorious for scheduling updates on UK bank holidays
Conveniently, there is a bank holiday on Aug. 27 for them to schedule their update on...
I would not be surprised

Forgive my Canadian ignorance, but what exactly is a bank holiday and how many do you get? By my forum count, it's about 40 a year. I'll swap with you.

[fatherpirate]

Other than Monster Manual, nothing new on Lam

[~Octaviun_Serlone]

so the actuall ? still remains....

Who cares about the bugs really?....there is always going to be bugs..what else would ppl have to complain about and there is always going to be something that is wrong with every new content release....there is NO PERFECT world ppl. if it was perfect again there would be nothing to complain about..

So the question still has not been answered......When will DDO put MOTU in the store so it can be purchased????????? the 20th? fine ...bank holiday 27th? Fine....

DEV'S nail it down for the ppl.

[grayham]

Forgive my Canadian ignorance, but what exactly is a bank holiday and how many do you get? By my forum count, it's about 40 a year. I'll swap with you.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/employme...days/dg_073741

Days off, basically.

Once upon a time everything shut down, now most retail services stay open. They are usually on a Monday, and there was a worrying trend recently when Turbine scheduled downtime on 2-3 consecutive Bank holidays.