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Even if we lived in a world with gold masters there would still be one reason for patches: Balancing. My thinking is to expect patches when making a multiplaye
by gandreani 8y ago
Even if we lived in a world with gold masters there would still be one reason for patches: Balancing.
My thinking is to expect patches when making a multiplayer game. There's just no practical way around it
- MarkTerrano 8y agoThe Command & Conquer approach (used by them and some others in the era of gold masters) was to release expansions to the game that incorporated the balance and other fixes as part of the release cycle of the game. In those days they didn't do independent patches because of the logistical complexity. It was an entirely different ecosystem before the Internet was common-place.
- bitwize 8y agoThis is one of the reasons why Brood War exists.