Originally Posted by SG1_Lud
Hi Majo:
I believe that it was a very difficult decision for them, to release this alpha-beta testing version or not. I imagine that the team was divided regarding that, but finally they decide to release.
The community was putting a lot of pressure, because is too long since the last patch, and because of the CTD online.
There was a poll about if it was preferred by us to wait until everything was perfect, or release it in whatever the current state was, to HELP with the testing process.
So finally they released, put a big warning, this is ALPHA DX-10, and asked us for help.
The results are what we know, and in line with what we could expect, seeing the results of the poll I mention before: a good part of the community took it as the patch they were expecting and a good part of the community took it as a testing release, and began to do correct tests (correct installs, methodic tests, hardware wise, in short, people who knows how to test, which it is not easy).
So I can understand that for a good amount of people, the patch is dissapointing, specially when they start to see unfinished things, graphics errors and so on. Many of them are surely very easy to fix ( I've seen so far z-offsets errors, alpha-channel errors, and some new CTD which could be related to normal and easily fixable code errors).
But I think they know what they are doing, and we must be patient. it's only a few days since they released this version.
I remember clearly, short after the NA release, we were in the exact same situation, and then they came with a patch that impressed nearly 100% af all of us, that was when we got the new amazing sounds and lot of new features. Please check back in time and see the reactions of the community in that patch (sorry I dont remember the exact version number). Then the infamous online CTD appeared, spoiling all this amazing job.
I only hope that Luthier and team can read correctly the forum reactions, and permit us to continue testing small new releases fixing this and that, and dont get blinded by the reactions of those who want to play now (understandable) and dont want to lose time testing. To this ones, please be patient, let the rest of us do the job of testing the game, so it can be fixed for all.
This method has worked in the past (again, see history around september 2011 and afterwards) and I am sure it will work again, and we will have a new milestone regarding stable releases.
Lud.
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