HotFix and the definition of „early“

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

Comments

Riptide

“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

QuikPik

The good thing about the energy bug is that is makes you restart the game which fixes the memory leak bug.

Wakandas_Finest

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

Graves_3

Hence the need for communication which can lead to fewer speculations!!

Colinwhitworth69

Hush, you're using facts. Not allowed here.

DNA3000

It can, but it often doesn't.

Vendemiaire

My definition of early is Friday and I always have my coffee at 11am.

Chompy

Hard to know, since there's often no communication.

Chompy

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

tfdrp2

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.

Kibble001

They should have cancelled AW and AQ this week. Makes competition harder if you cant load the game

Pikolu

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.

Wicket329

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.

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Shadowstrike

Don't use facts in here DNA! Let the people enjoy their blind rage.

Shadowstrike

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..

Wicket329

There will always be complaints. It’s why many game developers don’t engage with their communities or provide much insight to what’s happening on the dev side of things. Kabam is, honestly, better than many others in my experience at that, as weird as it may sound.

But I’d love to get more looking forward posts rather than what we get now. I want to be excited for new content, new balancing, new modes and metas and champions, not dreading the ambiguity that always sets in towards the end of every month. The early posting of QoL changes is something that Kabam has started doing recently and has been fantastic. Everybody loves Kabam Zero as a result. I’m talking about more stuff like that.

Like, is there anything in the works regarding champion acquisition? Anything in AW being tinkered with for the next season besides tactics or nodes? When the time comes to make balance passes on newly released champions, will there be data and graphs showing why the changes being made are being made? That’s the kind of stuff that could come out in a This Week at Kabam post. It’s just what they did that week. A look under the hood (not to be confused with the Hood, that would be rude).

Just spitballing here, but I love this game and the current state of it is… trying, to say the least.

pseudosane

You obviously havent lived through Early June and bases.

Demonzfyre

Or like the Dev Diaries, hold them to every single word regardless of how much Kabam warns people about no timelines etc..

DNA3000

It happens often enough, and fails to happen often enough, that it is actually easy to compare.

I'm all in favor of more communication, and I try to push for more communication whenever possible, but the reactions to that communication are at best 50/50. What you want from communication is for there to be as much information as possible, delivered as honestly as possible. But the forums don't grade on informative or honest. They grade on whether or not Kabam tells people what they want to hear. They look for ways to misinterpret what was said in the most aggressively antagonistic way.

It is easy to say Kabam should ignore those people, if it wasn't for the fact they are the ones that tend to actually post the most. I would, but it is a predictable human response to avoid directly drawing unwarranted conflict.

BowTieJohn

bxd

This was the First announcement. And this post was made because of this.

Vance2_jr

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.

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Panchulon21

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

Coppin

If u wanna be technical.. weeks start on sundays...

Demonzfyre

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.

Midnightfox

Yes it’s mid week now. We’re past early next week. Where’s the hot fix?

Kabam Jax

Hello summoners.

I have your update right here! I, too, wish it was here sooner, but as I get the information I'll continue to pass it along.

The hotfix is currently out for approval from Apple. We have to wait to hear back, but we are targeting Thursday. As always, this timeline can change as events unfold.

More information will come as things progress!

Draconic_12

You are slowly helping Kabam get out of the silence stage Thank you so much for the communication.