Patch 12/6 - pretty sure it's incoming

[Garp74]

They just announced a patch on the live US servers for 7pm eastern / 4pm pacific. Looking at the update notes


** Edited by Kannkor. Removed the psychic readings. **

 

[Kannkor]

Re: Forced Patch 12/6 - pretty sure it's incoming

They just announced a patch on the live US servers for 7pm eastern / 4pm pacific. Looking at the update notes, it looks pretty significant. I'm guessing there's a forced patching incoming! Just a heads-up if stuff stops working

Sigh.

All you're doing is creating confusion.

Sure, if it's forced you can pretend you look like a hero and 'called it'. If it's not forced, and people skim the forums and see 'forced patch' and they patch. And now we have tons of people who patched because they skimmed your post.

It's fine to say a patch is coming mid day (not sure the point), but don't predict and confuse people with posting if a patch is going to be forced or not without knowing.

 

[DaggerSplicer]

Re: Forced Patch 12/6 - pretty sure it's incoming

Sigh.

All you're doing is creating confusion.

Sure, if it's forced you can pretend you look like a hero and 'called it'. If it's not forced, and people skim the forums and see 'forced patch' and they patch. And now we have tons of people who patched because they skimmed your post.

It's fine to say a patch is coming mid day (not sure the point), but don't predict and confuse people with posting if a patch is going to be forced or not without knowing.

Well, once again you're correct Kannkor. Inciting mass panick is never a good ideal. However, he did call it correctly if without a bit of decorum. The forced patch just happened a moment ago. This would be the perfect time to see whats going on with Eve or SVG, but nothing to get in airs about for sure.

 

[battleaxe]

how do you know it's a forced patch when the server's aren't even back up yet?

 

[DaggerSplicer]

how do you know it's a forced patch when the server's aren't even back up yet?

I don't know if its a true forced patch of course. However, it wasnt't my intentions to counter point what Kannkor had mentioned. I only mentioned that the servers were being updated. I will be more careful with my selections of words in the future for those who may or may not get a bit sensitive about this subject.

 

[Kannkor]

I don't know if its a true forced patch of course. However, it wasnt't my intentions to counter point what Kannkor had mentioned. I only mentioned that the servers were being updated. I will be more careful with my selections of words in the future for those who may or may not get a bit sensitive about this subject.

I think we just have different definitions of a 'forced patch'.
They took down the server, yes we are all aware of that.

A 'forced patch' in this community means, you cannot log into the game without updating your Everquest2.exe, and thus breaking the current ISXEQ2.

So far we have:
Yes, the servers went down for an update.
Unconfirmed if it was a 'forced patch' or not.

It's also not about people being sensitive, but a group of people provide the majority of support to people who have issues. Creating MORE issues through confusion and creating more questions from users isn't a good time for those providing the support.

 

[Spaztic]

Not forced.

 

[DaggerSplicer]

I think we just have different definitions of a 'forced patch'.
They took down the server, yes we are all aware of that.

A 'forced patch' in this community means, you cannot log into the game without updating your Everquest2.exe, and thus breaking the current ISXEQ2.

So far we have:
Yes, the servers went down for an update.
Unconfirmed if it was a 'forced patch' or not.

It's also not about people being sensitive, but a group of people provide the majority of support to people who have issues. Creating MORE issues through confusion and creating more questions from users isn't a good time for those providing the support.

This was a misunderstanding, of which, I humbly settled myself as being the inciter here. I took the position of the servers are offline for an update to eq2.exe. Hence, my agreeance with the op at the point they actually went offline to mean this would be an update to isxeq2.exe as well. Now, that I fully understand what a forced patch means to the community here, there will be no more misunderstandings. Thank you for setting me on the right path.