Patching and Stability of the Essense Engine

[General Blaze]

Now, the thing that DOW taught us is that customers are sick of the Blizzard-styled wait-forever-till-eternity patching system. The problem with the old patching method is that it's a bit of a hassle for players to download patches of the net until they realised that they could not patch the game properly. :sick:

However, what if you Relic guys could streamlise the patching system? You know, make a patching system that'll ease the burden for both developers and consumers? Think about it. Fast, on the fly patching system. Exploits and bugs fixed in a week. For example, Arenanet's Guild Wars. Think about it. A system like that will enable you to dominate the market easily. ;)

Also, how stable will the Essense engine be?

[Bonnet]

Also, how stable will the Essense engine be? Will it be much easier to work with and less buggy than the IC/DOW engine?

DoW is hardly buggy by the standards of most modern games, also if the devs knew it was going to unstable they would fix it.

[General Blaze]

Nononono. That's not what I meant. What I meant to say is that will it be MORE stable? I'll edit it out to avoid confusion. ^^;

[briareos]

I doubt that CoH will attract many players as Guild Wars does...I think one of the developers already stated that modifying or adding something might break something that it's working fine. I think it would be pretty hard to solve stability bugs on the fly and balance issue must be tested throughly before throwing them to the players.