A challenge to Blizzard's secretive philosophy

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9-10-2009 @ 4:54PM

VSUReaper said...

I think the thing that made it ok for the Eve players was they said "Hey guys, we found a bug at the last min, its this, this, and this, and its going to take us a lil time to fix it, about 24 hours."
Eve players say cool, sit back and continue to enjoy the game.

Here is what we get from Blizz: "hey guys, we have a patch going thru today, its going to take us about 2 weeks of hot fixes to get everything up to what we think it should be"

This is what we would get from Blizz if they pushed a patch back a day: "Hey guys, we have found a bug in the patch that was supposed going thru today, its going to take us about 24 hours to fix it."

See the difference? Eve says WHAT the problem was, Blizz would just say not today, tomorrow maybe.
Lack of communication FTL

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