01-22-2009, 04:38 PM
I try to stop myself from going this far, but ...
No, there is no excuse for this patch. It spent twice as long on the PTR as it should have because they kept adding crap instead of splitting it up, and beyond that made some incredibly bad decisions that somebody should have seen beforehand. Why was all meaningful PvP killed? Well, in Wintergrasp's case victory caused a possibly-infinite loop of applying and removing the buff to the winning side. If only one person was on the PTR, this still would have shown up even if it hadn't crashed the server. If it didn't show up on PTR, then the reason for having PTR is a failure because they're pushing live something different than they're testing.
In Arena's case they changed the way ratings work by adding a third, hidden system. Now, from what they said it sounds like it would work in a vacuum where everyone started at 1500 equally. Guess what? People were 2200 when the patch hit. Did they even consider this?
I haven't raided seriously yet, but have heard of lag being worse than it was pre-patch. Remember now that Arenas were disabled, Wintergrasp (a huge contributer to lag on Mal'Ganis) was disabled, and they pushed live optimizations for instances in general and Naxxrammas in particular. Just what, then, did they screw up to make it worse under the most ideal circumstances?
I've seen some rocky major content patches since WoW was released, but for a "minor" patch this has been pretty spectacularly bad.
Quote:Some conditions that occur on live just cannot be tested on the PTR's, such as what happens when instance servers are loaded down with as many raids and 5 mans as are seen on a typical night or how Wintergrasp affects the hosts of players filling every nook and cranny of Northrend.
No, there is no excuse for this patch. It spent twice as long on the PTR as it should have because they kept adding crap instead of splitting it up, and beyond that made some incredibly bad decisions that somebody should have seen beforehand. Why was all meaningful PvP killed? Well, in Wintergrasp's case victory caused a possibly-infinite loop of applying and removing the buff to the winning side. If only one person was on the PTR, this still would have shown up even if it hadn't crashed the server. If it didn't show up on PTR, then the reason for having PTR is a failure because they're pushing live something different than they're testing.
In Arena's case they changed the way ratings work by adding a third, hidden system. Now, from what they said it sounds like it would work in a vacuum where everyone started at 1500 equally. Guess what? People were 2200 when the patch hit. Did they even consider this?
I haven't raided seriously yet, but have heard of lag being worse than it was pre-patch. Remember now that Arenas were disabled, Wintergrasp (a huge contributer to lag on Mal'Ganis) was disabled, and they pushed live optimizations for instances in general and Naxxrammas in particular. Just what, then, did they screw up to make it worse under the most ideal circumstances?
I've seen some rocky major content patches since WoW was released, but for a "minor" patch this has been pretty spectacularly bad.
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