Patching on a friday, I do hope it doesn't go wrong

Experience tells me no online game should ever do major updates/patches on a Friday/Saturday. Things have a tendency to go wrong no matter how much testing you do and you end up having to pull more overtime over the weekend to fix it. End result tired staff who are more prone to making mistakes and annoy the hell out of us the paying gamers.

I went through about a year of telling Digital Extremes the exact same thing with Warframe. So FD, patching is best done at beginning of the week or midweek if you have to. Then you have two too three days to fix bugs/exploits that never show up till release, if not then we the gamers try to patch and play, then rant on the forum as the game is down/broken.

But that advice is moot now as the horse is already in a burger some where by this time. But in future please FD, think before you push an update out after Wednesday.
 
It will. FDEV have made numerous large releases on Fridays that have gone to the dogs and haven't fixed them until the following week. Planning and implementation isn't FDEV's strong suit...
 
They might run a weekend staff to help with any issues. It's been running through 8 beta revisions remember, so they know roughly what to expect. I'm REALLY looking forward to it. Probably tomorrow morning at 5am, and then I'll get told off for not sleeping properly. Who needs sleep??? :)
 
Yeah, I thought the same thing :D Our dev team was joking this afternoon about not upgrading a big customer site we have because it's friday, which more or less guarantees something will screw up. Even worse before a bank holiday weekend :p
 
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Its not the first time they did this, if needs be frontier have already shown they are willing to sit up till the ams on a weekend to fix.
 
Would it be illogical to hypothesize that the release schedule has been compressed as much as possible because they need to get any kinks worked out en masse so they can get the XBox One build finalized? Wasn't that supposed to come out in August?
 
yep not exactly thrilled by this patch preventing me playing essentially a single player game (with multiplayer bolted on bits). Ok its great for all you guys who cant wait to try out the new patch..powerplay etc but not for the new guys...

Still i will be comforted if there are good optimizations for the DK2
 
Seems applicable:

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I have worked in IT my entire adult life. You never make changes / updates on Friday unless you have no other choice.

Ah... old school thinking.

It's cool to do Friday releases now; you just need to hide behind the belief that DEVOPS is apparently a thing. :)

Business owner: "Why did we release on a Friday?"
Delivery Manager "...because... DEVOPS!"
 
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