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[Vilnius]

Glad they fixed the Matchmaking and Map Load errors. Matchmaking is a ton quicker, and the Map Load error was just annoying.

Bungie rocks for fixing them.

[TridenT]

[Dasro_Kast]

[thebruce]

[angelo]

[water10]

TridenT wrote:

[Nova]

The coolest thing about this update is the unlocking of Foundation for everyone. As an ex-Marathon 2 junkie I just love that map.

[TridenT]

[inio]

[Nola]

I once heard someone say that the advent of online console services and downloadable content would make video game releases as sloppy as OS releases (window patches anyone?). Because the developers have a door open to fix errors after release without a major recall, they won't be as thorough in testing and will in fact release games with more known bugs counting on a later fix.

Of course this really screws the kid with no Live capability whose parents bought him the Xbox and the one game as a x-mas present.

On the other hand, it opens the door for a totally new things.

[Dasro_Kast]

[water10]

Coming from the mmorpg world, I'm somewhat used to daily patches fixing bugs while introducing new ones! I'm glad that we're not seeing DLC only to fix bugs! And I'm specially happy with the fast response from Bungie on this problems. The progressive scan fix helped me a lot! Now I'm only hoping they give you a choice to split the screen horizontally when playing co-op on a widescreen TV!

[thebruce]

plus, before the consoles entered the pc user world (pretty much pre-PS2), people didn't notice, or vocally complain as much about the bugs that appeared in games they bought for those older consoles... how many times was it just a matter of 'crap', and restarting the console, or blowing the cartridge, or cleaning the cd and such like that? those are more hardware related, but I'm sure if today those games were released, bugs in the games themselves would be reported left right and center... now, developers have the ability to fix those bugs.

The issue isn't so much that now there will be more bugs, just moreso that now more bugs will be noticed. It's like NASA scanning for asteroids... just because we see more now that have the ability doesn't mean they didn't exist before, but there's more scare now because we know they're there.

Now that developers can fix bugs after release, people will be seeing so many more fixable bugs, and it'll seem like quality has gone downhill, when really they were there all the time... generally speaking of course in a sense, you could consider downloadable patches another form of quality control, not quality loss... just gotta hope that, like we say, developers won't get lazy in their official releases, but instead continue to improve their product after release...

is the cup half empty or half full?