Posted 17 June 2014 - 10:22 AM
While I am very stoked to see the clans finally here, It is kind of sad that they can't have a couple guys come in a few hours early to start the patch. That's the life of development. If you have a launch coming, people are going to be billing OT. If you don't believe in OT you're in the wrong damn industry. They've already got the patch 90% there, proven by the PTS. Why a couple guys couldn't come in early to start the patch is beyond me. Hell why isn't it something that can be automated to start at 0:400PDT so the first guys in at 08:00 can confirm the patch and push the live button? IANAGameDev, so that's probably more work than it sounds, but the kind of thing once implemented would reduce required manpower in the future.
These are the little things that frustrate us and make us question you guys, PGI. It makes no difference for me if the server is up at 12:00PDT or 14:00 PDT, I'm probably not going to be on till 14:00 anyway, but when there are customers asking for a better patch schedule, it'd be nice for you to accommodate them.