Wednesday, October 19th 2011
Battlefield 3 To Ship With Release Day Patch
On the same day that Battlefield 3 is released, October 25th, a patch fixing bugs and making general improvements will be made available. While this may seem an odd thing to do, it's being done, because the developer DICE are perfectionists and want to released the best possible product. This means that development will continue right up to release day and the patch includes the sorts of things one would expect, such as added features as well as the bugfixes and is available for free on all three gaming platforms. This is the official statement from DICE about the patch:
Given this high expectation, gamers and reviewers alike will be expecting the game to be near-perfect in every way and certainly to be free of any obvious and annoying bugs such as crashes or graphical and gameplay glitches.
Here is an interesting Gametrailers interview with Kevin O'Leary of EA discussing the beta and final fixes. The graphics certainly look very impressive indeed and it has great social networking and gameplay features.
Official Battlefield 3 website: www.battlefield.com
Sources:
enterbf3.com, uk.gamespot.com
Copies are set to arrive on Tuesday because there is a Day 1 update. DICE are perfectionists -- they will not stop polishing the game until it is in your hands. The Day 1 update incorporates real-time feedback from the beta, ensuring that the consumer experience on launch day is outstanding. It is the actual consumer experience that we wish to be reviewed. The game with the Day 1 update will be available for review on Oct. 25.
Here is an interesting Gametrailers interview with Kevin O'Leary of EA discussing the beta and final fixes. The graphics certainly look very impressive indeed and it has great social networking and gameplay features.
Official Battlefield 3 website: www.battlefield.com
56 Comments on Battlefield 3 To Ship With Release Day Patch
if something is made be "perfectionist" don't need further work so their statement contradict itself from beginning...
This game aint gonna be cheaper even by penny after just a month LOL you will have to wait waaaay longer for that..
If their team was properly managed, then they would have pulled in extra resources 3-6 months ago to give manpower to hit the release deadline. If they only just found these bugs, then where did their Quality Assurance go? And the release should have been delayed a week or two until ready.
IMO it is a cover-up. In their opinion they were ready and finished before they thoroughly tested it. THEN a reviewer or beta tester found all sorts of bugs and compatibility issues. And in order to avoid bad press, they committed to fixing the worst bugs by patch on Day0. This is not a demonstration of perfectionism but cover my ass quick or get totalled. And you can bet that this patch does not cover all issues, just what they managed to get done my day0.
I am sorry, but clearly they are neither perfectionists nor professionals or they would have perfected their project management and development cycle and got this game ready and quality assured long ago. If they were perfectionist they would also have a better PR company and not tried to use this very naive moniker of "we are perfectionists". They are clear inexperienced and pretenders.
I see no problem, they are fixing their game, and on time
It's on day one. meaning right after you put your disc, before even having the chance to run the build in it, you will automatically download it as if its part of the original game, for digital buyers, its like there's no patch at all cause ITS DAY ONE PATCH.
Seriously, wait more days just to have this game patched up at the disc? for what. to save download bandwidth?? I'd rather have it now and then wait for the 25th for the patch.
Compare it to other games like Crysis 2, where the DX11 patch(which is the most important thing in the game, the series having a reputation in graphics) came 1000 years after its release, when I'm already done playing with it.
Just remember, games in the past may have less patches, less bugs, and "perfect" unpatched build. but they're far less complex and advanced compared to today's games like BF3. just look at the graphics, animations, sounds, effects.
sure, improvements in internet and content delivery can be a valid reason on why developers today release buggy rushed games. but IMO, BF3 is not rushed.
If they are rushing they could have just released BF3 right away and not release BCs at all.
BF3 has been in development ever since BF2 was released. yes there was the Bad Company series. but these already served as "test games" to prepare for BF3. the engine, destruction, graphics, animations that BF3 have were made from improvements from the Bad Company series.
the real turn off comes when even after the patch games still "feel buggy"...cus what you're really feeling should be quite similar to the tip of A BIG MARKETING/ADVERTISING D**K that is now at the entrance of your anus...and you have no clue what's gonna happen next; only thing you can do is "hope they keep their promises"
if yes then :rockout:
But, patching a game doesn't even closely mean that the game will have bugs fixed. And everyone can admit it since EA has a trend/habit, to make a rush release of game, and only after a while, when there's a danger of the whole series stop to sell itself, they will halt other project to make some critical fixes. It's obvious, that poor DICE ppl are busy as hell, because they are now a cork in every hole of EA shitty management. They have to make a tone of other projects, and they have real butt-pain, because EA still continues to cut and fire other studios and specialists. And we could see it year ago, and since then nothing has been changed at all. You may laugh, and shout, but I'm sure that game will be bugged as hell. And all works optimization for PC will end with the release of game. Consoles will have more attention received, but still not enough to play the game without troubles.
What I told is not a bitching or whining. This is just statement of fact. BF3 could be great game, but it seems it will be only good one. Since all great tiles of EA and other companies, end in dust of doom and oblivion. Time will show, and I want to be wrong now.
P.S.: To those, who bought game or about to do it- let it will be pleasant for you.
P.S.: To those, who boycotting - let your efforts force companies to think twice.
Just woke up :cool: :o
That's pretty good though, it might be a disguise for something scary
But way more likely the game is going to be great :laugh:
:D