MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

[Money99]

Re: Launch Day Patch Announced

It seems nearly every game I buy anymore has a Day 1 patch. Since they go final at least 2 weeks (I'm not sure exactly, so I guessed 2 weeks) before release day, they have plenty of time to tweak stuff before it. I'm not surprised in the least.

Would like to know what they addressed, however.

That appears to be the nature of the beast these days.
The games are becoming so complex that there's no way they can be completed in a 12-month cycle.

So we as gamers essentially pay $60 to become QA testers while the devs use an additional 3-6 months to patch various bugs.

I hope we don't see any next-gen consoles for at least 5 more years, but when that day comes, I'd love for developers to adopt a more sane approach.
Build an engine and then release one game at the beginning and the provide sporadic updates for $20 a shot.
No more 12-month cycles where games are always broken out of the box. Give us a solid game and then add on to it every so often.

I'm sure the gamers and the programmers would be a lot happier with that type of system.

[tvman]

Re: Launch Day Patch Announced

Can do either for most mainstream games. This included. However there's no tax on Steam and most other direct download services.

Thanks for the info.

[RoyalBoyle78]

Re: Launch Day Patch Announced

That appears to be the nature of the beast these days.
The games are becoming so complex that there's no way they can be completed in a 12-month cycle.

So we as gamers essentially pay $60 to become QA testers while the devs use an additional 3-6 months to patch various bugs.

I hope we don't see any next-gen consoles for at least 5 more years, but when that day comes, I'd love for developers to adopt a more sane approach.
Build an engine and then release one game at the beginning and the provide sporadic updates for $20 a shot.
No more 12-month cycles where games are always broken out of the box. Give us a solid game and then add on to it every so often.

I'm sure the gamers and the programmers would be a lot happier with that type of system.

Very Well said...

[GlennN]

That appears to be the nature of the beast these days.
The games are becoming so complex that there's no way they can be completed in a 12-month cycle.

So we as gamers essentially pay $60 to become QA testers while the devs use an additional 3-6 months to patch various bugs.

I hope we don't see any next-gen consoles for at least 5 more years, but when that day comes, I'd love for developers to adopt a more sane approach.
Build an engine and then release one game at the beginning and the provide sporadic updates for $20 a shot.
No more 12-month cycles where games are always broken out of the box. Give us a solid game and then add on to it every so often.

I'm sure the gamers and the programmers would be a lot happier with that type of system.

Makes me miss the old, pre-patch, days. Very few games had game-breaking bugs then, probably BECAUSE they couldn't be fixed. These days, QA is an afterthought, since they can just patch later. To me, it changed the whole attitude about the release of games.

I'll be waiting a while to see whether this is worth buying. I would rather the PC version, but since 2k openly ignores PC buyers, I would not touch a PC game from 2k.

[NumberOneRB]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

I'll be interested to see how much the retail version has improved compared to the demo. I guess its good to see a patch was already being developed before release. I only have an Xbox 360 currently, so I'm hoping VC makes a really good game here.

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

Makes me miss the old, pre-patch, days. Very few games had game-breaking bugs then, probably BECAUSE they couldn't be fixed. These days, QA is an afterthought, since they can just patch later. To me, it changed the whole attitude about the release of games.

You are 100% wrong. Games had all kinds of glitches and bugs. But we accepted them, becasue there was no other option. Or we moved on to a better game.

[Redemption]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

You are 100% wrong. Games had all kinds of glitches and bugs. But we accepted them, becasue there was no other option. Or we moved on to a better game.

lol, I was just going to say this. Bugs/gross oversights/etc have ALWAYS existed in pretty much every game. But we choose to remember what we want to remember

[Redemption]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

as for this patch, one thing I really want is the camera angle after the ball is put in play to actually track the ball. Yes you can judge fairly well what is going to happen on a fly ball based on the fielders, but it still seems silly to me not to have the ball on screen.

[JasonSGN]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

as for this patch, one thing I really want is the camera angle after the ball is put in play to actually track the ball. Yes you can judge fairly well what is going to happen on a fly ball based on the fielders, but it still seems silly to me not to have the ball on screen.

Agreed. I hope this is added at some point.

[Michiganfan815308]

Is there going to be a release day roster update? Has there been one in the past?

[Rules]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

Argh. I was planning to get the PC version, but now I'll probably wait a little bit to see what bugs are present since that version is not going to get a patch for months.

Same here. I'm going to cancel my preorder and wait to see how the PC version pans out.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

Is there going to be a release day roster update? Has there been one in the past?

Yes, there was last year, if I recall correctly.

With the dynamic player ratings this year, we should see very frequent roster updates.

[DirtyJerz32]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

Yes, there was last year, if I recall correctly.

With the dynamic player ratings this year, we should see very frequent roster updates.

I wouldn't think we'd get one until opening day. Just my thought though. I've been wrong before.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

I wouldn't think we'd get one until opening day. Just my thought though. I've been wrong before.

We got a few last year during Spring Training. Ever since they added the "living rosters" in 2K9, they've been much more frequent.

[DirtyJerz32]

Re: MLB 2K11 Day One Patch Announced

We got a few last year during Spring Training. Ever since they added the "living rosters" in 2K9, they've been much more frequent.

Good points. Hopefully the same will be said for 2k11.