HotFix and the definition of „early“

bxdbxd Member Posts: 25 ★
in General Discussion
Hi there,

this is not about compensation or anything like this.
It‘s about communication.
My definition of „early next week“ in this case is monday. Why? Because this is not just a bug like all the others currently in the game. It is a bug on top of a bug that is bugging is for a year (pun intended) in combination with the QOL bug (energy).

So pretty pretty please give us a statement.

Thx in advance
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  • DNA3000DNA3000 Member, Guardian Posts: 19,988 Guardian
    Graves_3 said:

    Wakandas_Finest said:

    Usually a “hot fix” is in the form of an update to the game. Updates have to be submitted to apple and google for approval before either will make them available in their respective stores for the public. Kabam does not control when apple or google will make an update available. For all we know the hot fix update has already been submitted and waiting approval/release. Be patient

    Hence the need for communication which can lead to fewer speculations!!
    It can, but it often doesn't.
  • VendemiaireVendemiaire Member Posts: 2,178 ★★★★★
    My definition of early is Friday and I always have my coffee at 11am.
  • ChompyChompy Member Posts: 55 ★
    Colinwhitworth69 said:

    Wakandas_Finest said:

    Usually a “hot fix” is in the form of an update to the game. Updates have to be submitted to apple and google for approval before either will make them available in their respective stores for the public. Kabam does not control when apple or google will make an update available. For all we know the hot fix update has already been submitted and waiting approval/release. Be patient

    Hush, you're using facts. Not allowed here.
    The fact is, Kabam said we should have a hot fix early next week. If kabam truly has no control over when an update will be made available perhaps they shouldn't tell us it will be available early next week
  • tfdrp2tfdrp2 Member Posts: 49 ★
    Wakandas_Finest said:

    Usually a “hot fix” is in the form of an update to the game. Updates have to be submitted to apple and google for approval before either will make them available in their respective stores for the public. Kabam does not control when apple or google will make an update available. For all we know the hot fix update has already been submitted and waiting approval/release. Be patient

    Some, not all of, the other games I play put out an in game announcement that will say the hot fix is ready and been submitted to apple/google and awaiting approval. Just saying.
  • Kibble001Kibble001 Member Posts: 58 ★
    They should have cancelled AW and AQ this week. Makes competition harder if you cant load the game
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  • ShadowstrikeShadowstrike Member Posts: 3,114 ★★★★★
    DNA3000 said:

    Graves_3 said:

    Wakandas_Finest said:

    Usually a “hot fix” is in the form of an update to the game. Updates have to be submitted to apple and google for approval before either will make them available in their respective stores for the public. Kabam does not control when apple or google will make an update available. For all we know the hot fix update has already been submitted and waiting approval/release. Be patient

    Hence the need for communication which can lead to fewer speculations!!
    It can, but it often doesn't.
    Don't use facts in here DNA! Let the people enjoy their blind rage.
  • ShadowstrikeShadowstrike Member Posts: 3,114 ★★★★★
    Wicket329 said:

    I don’t know if it’s feasible for Kabam because I imagine it’s somewhat resource intensive, but I’d love if they’d provide more regular updates in the vein of what Bungie does with Destiny 2.

    They have a weekly post that goes up around the same time each week called This Week At Bungie (TWAB for short). In that post, they detail some of the projects they’re currently working on, talk about balancing changes they may be making to the game, talk about big content stuff on the horizon, that kind of thing.

    Now, I know that a game like Destiny 2 has both more moving parts and, I presume, funding than MCoC does. They make weekly patches and so weekly updates make more sense. But even if we were to receive this kind of post biweekly or monthly, I think it would be well-received. Then again, I also understand Kabam’s hesitance to mention their aspirational projects, like Wish Crystals, because they may never pan out and will end up being used as rhetorical cudgels for literal years to come. On the flip side again, a more frequently used communication line could be used to give updates on those aspirational projects and explain why they don’t pan out and what alternative avenues the company is exploring to fill that same hole.

    I’d love to see a TWAKabam. I think it would do the player base a lot of good, even if some weeks it just says something like “Our team worked on XYZ known issues, did a balance pass on the new champion’s for X month, and began work on Y month’s side quest.” Obviously more detail is always preferred, but just getting that glimpse behind the curtain would make a lot of players feel better and, in some cases, give players a sense of what is achievable for the team in a certain window of time and what isn’t.

    I imagine that if they did this, there'd be so many complaints about wasted resources on projects a b and c and somebody complaining about that they're wasting resources even documenting projects that are failures to begin with..
  • pseudosanepseudosane Member, Guardian Posts: 4,008 Guardian
    You obviously havent lived through Early June and bases.
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,500 ★★★★★
    Pikolu said:

    Chompy said:

    DNA3000 said:

    Graves_3 said:

    Wakandas_Finest said:

    Usually a “hot fix” is in the form of an update to the game. Updates have to be submitted to apple and google for approval before either will make them available in their respective stores for the public. Kabam does not control when apple or google will make an update available. For all we know the hot fix update has already been submitted and waiting approval/release. Be patient

    Hence the need for communication which can lead to fewer speculations!!
    It can, but it often doesn't.
    Hard to know, since there's often no communication.
    In all fairness, people wouldn't read the communication anyways. Can't tell you how many people last month were asking when Trials of Madness would start when we had multiple communications telling us it was Tuesday.
    Or like the Dev Diaries, hold them to every single word regardless of how much Kabam warns people about no timelines etc..
  • BowTieJohnBowTieJohn Member Posts: 2,400 ★★★★

  • bxdbxd Member Posts: 25 ★


    This was the First announcement. And this post was made because of this.
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  • CoppinCoppin Member Posts: 2,601 ★★★★★
    Panchulon21 said:

    Riptide said:

    “Early next week” could mean Monday, Tuesday, or maybe even Wednesday.

    But yes, I would also like a hot fix asap the energy bug is annoying

    Early week is Monday Tuesday.
    Mid week is Wednesday
    End of week of Thursday Friday

    This is based off 5 day week not 7 day week
    If u wanna be technical.. weeks start on sundays...
  • DemonzfyreDemonzfyre Member Posts: 22,500 ★★★★★
    Vance2_jr said:

    Communication shouldn’t be hard. It really shouldn’t. We get it…there are problems with the game. Fine. But Kabam can alleviate 99% of the other stuff by communicating. It’s as simple as checking and saying “hey everyone, we know we said we’d have an update/fix/whatever by xxx date. Just letting you know it’s still in the works. Sit tight.” Rinse. Repeat.

    That has never worked. Because the community will start to complain about hearing the same thing over and over again, which they already do. There is no winning solution for communication for Kabam that will ever satisfy both how Kabam wants to communicate and what the community wants.
  • MidnightfoxMidnightfox Member Posts: 1,398 ★★★★
    Yes it’s mid week now. We’re past early next week. Where’s the hot fix?
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