Quote:Considering all the things that went wrong... yeah, I'm a little baffled too.It's pretty simple. They had to rush the patch out before the Lunar Festival started.
Previous incidents where patches were released during holiday events resulted in, well, frankly a huge whine-fest ("Baaawwh, extended maintenance during festivals! Gief game time! Extend the holiday!") and this patch has two changes to the next festival (Love Is In The Air) that had to go live before the event started, namely removing the Perma-Peddle achievement as a requirement of the event meta, and making Pledges of Adorations soulbound.
The problem is that the Lunar Festival runs until the day after Love Is In The Air starts, there would be no break between festivals. Blizzard pretty much had to push the patch this maintenance to avoid:
A) Whining due to the fact that a pretty major non-content patch was pushed during the middle of an event.
B) Get those important LIITA changes applied before the event ran.
Granted, the masses of problems suck. If we could have counted on the player base being mature enough to swallow a more refined patch in the middle of what is actually one of the longest events on the calendar, then all this could have been avoided.
Problem is that the player base isn't that mature. As little as four seconds browsing the thread titles in the official boards is proof enough of that fact.
I'm not being a Blizzard apologist here, they could have done things very differently, in fact they should have; but when you've got what is essentially an unpleasable fanbase with previous form for acting like children over the tiniest of issues, you can't really blame them fully for this blunder.
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When beset by doubt,
Run in little circles,
Wave your arms and shout.
BattleTag: Schrau#2386