Rereading quot from Tyren again:
"The process of patching the client up to this point has been a different technical structure than the client that we will be releasing come launch. Thus to syncronize the two different versions of the same client, the closed beta testers had to reinstall the entire client.
The new content patch will arrive sometime in the not too distant future, and the dev team has done it's best to make sure that patch is not too heavy so the download should not take very long.
Tyren "
I think I understand now how they will try to accomplish this. Apparently the release game will not include our input from Open Beta. It will probably a separate, more advanced version of the patch we are about to get. They are making a separate version that will be THE release, and whatever input we add from Open Beta will be implemented at a later date. This is the ONLY way they will be able to go gold and release before november 23. If you add the time needed to actually implement the changes and fix the bugs, and the fact that patch didn't even come out yet, this comes as the only possibility.
I can't even begin to explain how BAD that would be.
"The process of patching the client up to this point has been a different technical structure than the client that we will be releasing come launch. Thus to syncronize the two different versions of the same client, the closed beta testers had to reinstall the entire client.
The new content patch will arrive sometime in the not too distant future, and the dev team has done it's best to make sure that patch is not too heavy so the download should not take very long.
Tyren "
I think I understand now how they will try to accomplish this. Apparently the release game will not include our input from Open Beta. It will probably a separate, more advanced version of the patch we are about to get. They are making a separate version that will be THE release, and whatever input we add from Open Beta will be implemented at a later date. This is the ONLY way they will be able to go gold and release before november 23. If you add the time needed to actually implement the changes and fix the bugs, and the fact that patch didn't even come out yet, this comes as the only possibility.
I can't even begin to explain how BAD that would be.