cayqel Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Okay so it took us 2 months to get a JA patch. Raven kept saying the patch was ready but LA wouldn't put it out. However the KOTOR get's a patch 2 weeks after the game comes out. What gives? I'm not a fan of games needing patching right after release, but if it's needed it should be released quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetorite_Vong Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 i guess because KOTOR has a team directly working on the game and they could get out the patch after major testing. Lucasarts has so many new games in the works that they needed to concentrate on those games. i don't know just my two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emon Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I'm guessing different people at LEC in charge of different games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Maybe it had something to do with the fact that KOTOR has been out for the Xbox for ages? Or that it's a different company making the game? Who knows. Maybe LA learned their lesson and is listening to the developers now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetorite_Vong Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 "Maybe LA learned their lesson and is listening to the developers now?" we can only hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WadeV1589 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 That's more praying for a miracle than hoping for sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master_Keralys Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 That's a fast patch for any dev team. Maybe they learned after seeing the fuss w/JA - but I'd lean more towards the diff people in charge of diff games. b/c they sure didn't learn between JK2 and JA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I disagree with you there. The first JK2 patch took 3 months to come out, and it pissed a ton of people off because it radically changed gameplay (even if it did add four new duel maps and a few new animations to MP). Thus the second patch (1.04) had to be made to "fix" a lot of the problems the first one introduced (and people still weren't satisfied). So it took four months for JK2 to finish being patched. JA's patch admittedly fixed stuff we'd wished they'd fixed the first week, but blame LucasArts, Raven had to wait on them. Still, it was released in almost a third of the time. The JA patch (1.01) didn't even touch gameplay (except making it a bit harder to do ground rolls). It fixed bugs and exploits, some of which were still left over from JK2. Now they release a bonus pack of maps that's seperate from the patch. How are they "not learning" this time? And while we all sit and blame LucasArts, it should be noted that this is only the second generation of pc games they've made through third party companies (IIRC). They still seem to be getting their bearings and building up "trust" for the developers. Believe me, I wish they'd gotten their act together sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorace Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I'm guessing that overly complicated contracts and the fact that Raven has been doing Q4 for some time now effected things. Plus, there's the fact that Raven is fully owned by Activision, so that's a second publisher added into the patching process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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