Wheres the Update?

Ok so its nearly 3PM GMT. And with nearly all patches the servers go down at 12 PM GMT and are usually down for 3 hours or so.
As far as I can tell there has been no update to the servers, so what's happening?

Or maybe I'm missing something...

Why is it that SOE always seems to *CENSORED* it up, and no other company has delays in patches?

"This is not those other companies"

If any of you who campaign for more people to this game, have one idea about business, you would know that quote, if it was intended to be used, is naive.

TH

i agree with TH....this gets a giant B0o0o0o0oo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o00o0o0o0o0o0o0o

OH NOES!

I am very calm, let me show you something:-

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.4.3 - Last updated on 06/18/2008

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patc...patchnotes.html

General

• Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
• Parry Rating, Defense Rating, and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
• Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World's End Tavern!
• Mounts at 30?! Yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
• Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded in their bats for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
• Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: All 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
• Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: [Captured Firefly], dragonhawk hatchlings ([Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling], [Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling], [Red Dragonhawk Hatchling], [Silver Dragonhawk Hatchling]), moths ([Blue Moth Egg], [Red Moth Egg], [Yellow Moth Egg], [White Moth Egg]), owls ([Great Horned Owl], [Hawk Owl]), parrots ([Parrot Cage (Green Wing Macaw)], [Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw)], [Parrot Cage (Senegal)], [Parrot Cage (Cockatiel)]), [Phoenix Hatchling], [Captured Flame], [Sprite Darter Egg], and [Tiny Spore Bat].
• [Nether Ray Fry] (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha'tari Skyguard.
• Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
• Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
• You can no longer move backwards to stop racing rams.
• When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.

Druid

• Barkskin: The cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.

Hunter

• Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet's Growl.
• Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.
• Scare Beast: This spell will now be limited correctly to one target.

Paladin

• Greater Blessing of Light (Rank 1): This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light (Rank 2).
• Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.

Priest

• Mind Vision: This effect will now be canceled immediately on targets who use an [Invisibility Potion] or [Gnomish Cloaking Device].
• Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.

Rogue

• Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. If the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue's health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. The damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.

Shaman

• Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its Earth Elemental Totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
• Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.

Warlock

• Curse of Shadow: This spell has been removed.
• Curse of the Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and Fire.
• Demonic Sacrifice: This ability will now interact correctly with the Spirit Guide resurrection system in battlegrounds. A sacrificed pet will not be resummoned on death, and will not prevent keeping a record of the most recently created pet.
• Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
• Ritual of Summoning: The mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
• Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.

Warrior

• Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)

PvP

• The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.

Professions

• Alchemy

  • [Philosopher's Stone] now requires 200 Alchemy.
• Cooking

  • [Juicy Bear Burger] now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage.
• Jewelcrafting

  • Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled.
• Mining

  • Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. The drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.
• Tailoring

  • Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.
  • Herb bags can now hold [Un'Goro Soil] and [Evergreen Pouch].
  • Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
  • New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: [Pattern: Haliscan Jacket] and [Pattern: Haliscan Pantaloons].

Quests

• Bhag'thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.
• For the quests Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa.
• For the quests Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.

Dungeons and Raids

• Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.

Magister’s Terrace

• The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been removed and the Bounce range reduced.
• Vexallus and Kael'thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.
• Vexallus' damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.
• Kael'thas' Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.)
• Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.
• Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly.
• Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly.

Sunwell Plateau

• Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twins are in combat.
• Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil'jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts.
• Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil'jaeden.

Items

• [Verdant Keeper's Aim]: This item’s triggered effect no longer breaks the effect of Scatter Shot.
• [Brutal Gladiator's Pummeler] has had its Stamina value increased to the appropriate value.
• [Clockwork Rocket Bot] fight amongst themselves again...without attacking people in the arena. Well... they’ll blow up other Bots in the arena, but you know what we mean.
• The Eredar Twins will now award the same items regardless of which order they are killed in.
• [Invisibility Potion]: These potions now are on the same cooldown as other combat consumable potions (such as mana potions.)
• [Pendant of the Violet Eye]: This item will again work correctly with Holy Light and Flash of Light.
• [Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen]: The triggered effect from this Item can now occur on periodic damage ticks.
• [Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury] is now Unique as intended.
• [Vengeful Gladiator's Baton of Light]: This item now appears in the correct position on the vendor list.

CUT HALFWAY LOL CAN'T EVEN FIT THE NOTES IN!

I would paste AOC but that's too much for the post count.

No I don't play wow, good example of what there is in their patch notes.

I am not whining, I pay for my game time, and I don't think three fixes is acceptable.

TH

SolidRevolver wrote:

Michael1 wrote:

Then why did they release the update without the Sati's Playground huh? There isn't anything else we care in that update. They could release the update next week with the construct.

Negative, at least this way we still get missions and bug fixes.  Better than nothing.

Negative is their patch notes, I am consumer that feels compared to other things in the market, this is not good enough. Please don't say, "Go to those games then and don't complain here" That again is naive, I do like this game, and have been here a long time, it's just petty that after four years there are no major releases. Two constructs... that's it?

When I log on now it's rediculous, two people stood in Mara Central and at peek times.

TH

Vinia wrote:

Bloody hell, how about 9mmfu breaks some parts of the game so when they can fix them we can have bigger update notes? I suspect most of the work done in the last month or so has been aimed towards the new construct.

There is just no pleasing some people.

I'm very pleased  

Just not at this game I do still enjoy my MA tournaments, and some of the community, but the forums seem to be the Mara C atm.... well it always was.

TH

Procurator wrote:

*Laughs at the WoW patch notes.*

That's nothing to be proud of. That all looks like bug fixes to me (what are they doing with so many bugs?), or various fiddly little settings (can they not make up their minds how these things are supposed to work?).

I don't play wow, so I can't answer for them.

Conan have some major patches planned ( I do play that), but they are still young.

The fact they have so much to come says alot. WoW is also MUCH larger than MxO, so you can expect alot more than that, we all also know that regardless of how little are patch notes are for fixes there is a very exploitable system out there, no CQ rewards and the list goes on.

WoW for me wasn't cool, I didn't like the kids too much. They do however have major updates, new expansions. Eve was also dying until they had huge patches. This game has big patches every so often, but not major patches.

A good thing to point out is this:-

Conan: - No Killing awards, planned for release in the summer.
MxO:- No CQ awards, 4 years out, and no plans.

Edit: The fact I'm on these boards talking about this, and not ingame is another statement of the games activity

TH

Procurator wrote:

This is a really old debate, though, so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up again. MxO failed as an MMO - we know. It still has a loyal (if very small) fanbase, but SOE has allocated a team of three and a half people to work for MxO and won't put any money in to do anything grand. We know this, and there's nothing we can do about it.

Just enjoy what we have and what the Devs manage to add to the game, which is far from nothing.

An old debate that will continue amongst the veterans and new players alike. To enjoy what we have? I run events every now and again, and I appluad the brains of Algorithm and so forth who make this game enjoyable, but as for the content, apart from the duelling/pvp we are mainly stand around an internet chat room.

You can only play monopoly so many times.

TH

Procurator wrote:

ThHidden01 wrote:

but as for the content, apart from the duelling/pvp we are mainly stand around an internet chat room.

The Devs have given us a lot of content over the past few months especially. If people aren't playing it, that's the players' fault. Apparently we get bored easily. But you cannot say the Devs haven't tried. They're still trying now, with Sati's Playground! What else are they supposed to do?

True, but how long does this content really last? A week at best of work? There is no faction progress system through the game, such as massively hard instances or something. I am not a fan of instances so not a massive miss for me However some games have a Guild City, something where players can gather and spend a long time working on something together. My AoC guild is working very hard to afford our city, and I know we do have a hallway key, it would be nice for more group like things.

These news releases are good, but they are not durable, tough at best, but I suppose the combat system has something to answer for that, but even now I can think of ways to make things exciting not just different construct, same farming.

TH

OoRoyoO wrote:

i think if the devs hung out ingame more often it wouldnt be so bad is ther eno more quiz events or kill someone for reweards anymore?

As I said earlier, you can only play Monopoly so many times.

And yes I do care about that game, that is why I am complaining on the forum. Yes we have heard it, yes the Devs are aware, but it's silly that this seems repetitive. If moaning about your game is repetitive on these boards that's a worrying alarm bell.

As for the database, I hear the devs cannot work it... so why are they working on this game. Rarebit works hard, but if the Devs really have no idea what they are doing on the database... no wrong phrasing, if they devs have some issues in certain areas, then why are they even working on this game?

I am not questioning their ability, and I doubt that they will give us more devs, especially at it's death knell that we sit in at the moment. I for one, will never play another SOE game, a promise that I have had for a long time, even when my faction has begged me to join them in games like Planetside.

The fact I feel it's pointless to fight for this is annoying, and pure evidence of the chance that we will recieve anything is next to nothing.

I will continue playing this game about 10-15 hours a week, now it is my part time game, and not full time like Conan. I will continue to hope that the Devs actually listen and get out their fat arses to learn the database and answer questions and concerns like this, and yes I am talking to your messiah Rarebit.

I appreciate their work, I am not spoilt, and respect the hardwork they have done, but things are not right. I am done here, as this is an update discussion, and my words are gearing off topic.

TH