Not a single patch/update since release?

[ShaggyLives]

Game runs decent on single player but still has bugs. Game is running pretty bad on multiplayer. This is my first early access game I've been a part of that didn't have any patch downloads the first day, little alone 4 days later. I really hope they didn't release this game on a Thursday and were celebrating sales with a 3 day weekend off. Even the Twitter account has only two mentions of "we are looking into things" and has several celebrating it's sales. I feel like they are blaming all issues on server side problems and are waiting for the server companies to fix everything.

I remember when Astroneer devs were thanking everyone and had updates the first month about getting a new office and adding staff (including HR) with their game revenue. I really didn't need to know that but at least they had patches rolling in at the same time. I know Steam TOS for devs says early access isn't meant to be "crowd funding" for development of the game but I'd rather the money from sales go toward paying overtime to repair the game than expanding benefits to the staff while looking toward future projects. Just hope that isn't happening here.

[Pat |GX]

*sound of person running away with money bags*

[Biscuit Tim]

Its been out for *Checks store page* 3 days...

[Bisexual Offender]

Bruh, the game was not even out for a week, chill.

[alan0n]

It released on a friday and was reasonably stable after they got the backend working. Do you work sat and sun?

I dont.

I also dont expect others to do so purely for my casual gaming convenience.

[Vespertellino]

Huh bro how fast do you think games are developed?

[Dark]

Kids are impatient now days

[Forge Master]

Can we at least give the Devs a WEEK to collect data, analyze code, etc.. before pushing out a half baked update?

[Bansheedragon]

First of all you can't have been playing many EA(Early Access) games if this is the first one you played with no updates on day one.
Just because there are no updates does not mean nothing is happening.
It is not uncommon for games to not have any updates for the first several days, sometimes a couple weeks as well
And from what I understand this is a small team and I don't think they expected the game to explode in popularity like it did.

Secondly, looking into things means they are doing just that, they are looking at all the bug reports and feedback and trying to find out where the problems are and how to fix them, and these are the kinds of things that can take time.
Rarely, if ever, is it as simple as just changing some code and tweaking some numbers, because there are so many things that are interacting with each other that changing or fixing one thing can cause problems elsewhere.
There could also be multiple causes for a bug and tracking down and fixing each of them is usually a time consuming process.

If it had been several months with no updates and no word for them, then I would start worry, but with only 3 days having passed I would not worry.

[ShaggyLives]

The number of fanbois trolling discussions to reply quickly without reading the entire comment is ridiculous. This isn't a comment about adding content. It's about patches. Patches are "quick fixes" and don't require weeks of data. It's also why you release games on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday. So you have several days to monitor and patch the game without asking devs to work over time or the weekend correcting minor problems.

[Naijiro]

Bro thing bug fixing and patches just happens at the press of a button, it's been 3 days and this is easily one of the most optimized early access games to come out in recent memory, you can even play online pretty stable.

[KnightNi]

They had a patch on the 20th, nice bait

[Bisexual Offender]

Originally posted by ShaggyLives:

The number of fanbois trolling discussions to reply quickly without reading the entire comment is ridiculous. This isn't a comment about adding content. It's about patches. Patches are "quick fixes" and don't require weeks of data. It's also why you release games on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday. So you have several days to monitor and patch the game without asking devs to work over time or the weekend correcting minor problems.

Every patch, even a small one, requires weeks upon weeks of developing and testing.
How to show that you know dickall about gamedev in less than 5 minutes.

[lasmas]

normal people don't work on weekends unless all is on fire that it's not

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by ShaggyLives:

The number of fanbois trolling discussions to reply quickly without reading the entire comment is ridiculous. This isn't a comment about adding content. It's about patches. Patches are "quick fixes" and don't require weeks of data. It's also why you release games on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday. So you have several days to monitor and patch the game without asking devs to work over time or the weekend correcting minor problems.

Falling to calling people "fanboys" just because they point out your impatience immediately invalidates any complaint you have.

1: The game released right before a weekend. The only two companies that I know that will release emergency patches only on weekends are Digital Extremes and ArenaNet, and those are for a GAAS and an MMO respectively.
2: While not without issues the game has been stable over the weekend.
3: They updated the news box to include a warning about the known save loss issue. That's already more than most devs do on the weekend.
4: Coding takes time, "quick patches" or not.
5: When to release is irrelevant as the game is already out.

Calm down and be patient.

[Wonko486]

There was a day one patch. I remember because I was shocked to see another 400 something meg update after I installed the game.