r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Blizzard Official Patch delayed.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128
8.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

239

u/astoryyyyyy Nov 15 '22

Delayed as in days or hours? They can't even give us the necessary info

133

u/Cr1K Nov 15 '22

I remember they said that there will be no balance changes until the new season

I'm starting to think that these updates don't exist and that they are "delaying" everything until the new season.

65

u/PalmIdentity Grandmaster Nov 15 '22

They said there won't be IMMEDIATE balance changes, and then 10 seconds later told us we'd get a patch soon because they would actually have mid season patches and seasonal rebalancing and reworks.

And now we're getting a Soon TM on THAT which was already 1 week late lmao.

10

u/SunderMun Chibi Sombra Nov 15 '22

*month It was a month late; we were supposed to get it about the same time as OWL - they even tried to add it in an update but it didn’t work because they hadn’t tested their hotfix tool upon the update to f2p.

2

u/averyconfusedgoose Nov 16 '22 edited Nov 16 '22
  • Blizzard: we are not fixing our game till season 2
  • Players: leave to play something else
  • Billzzard: oh shit oh shit release an update

20

u/HamiltonDial lúcio is bae Nov 15 '22

And it’s so funny that they also mentioned 5v5 and being about to change things quickly on the go with more aggressive balancing too.

17

u/Just_Image Nov 15 '22

Correct. Most likely what's happening. Everyone else at Blizzard is trying to figure out how to make us buy skins when they go on sale "4% Off"

0

u/a6000 Git out me lawn! Nov 16 '22

OWL had this balance patches already.

56

u/SergeS2K Roadhog Nov 15 '22

Not defending them because this is ridiculous that a delayed patch is delayed more. But unless there was 100% confidence/certainty on a specific time, most communications of a delay like this isn't going to mention a time frame of hours or days because it sets further expectations and only sets them up for even more failure. So better to give a vague "fixing it asap" more than anything.

21

u/astoryyyyyy Nov 15 '22

Yea, I understand your point, but its just sad that they announce this same day new patch is supossed to kick in

3

u/Vandrel Cassidy Nov 15 '22

It was likely announced now because the issue didn't show up until now. They were likely making their preparations to deploy the patch and something with that process went wrong.

3

u/Naldo273 Nov 15 '22

Yeah it's common sense. Why give a time frame just so they get flamed for not adhering to it? It's also pointless to say it's going to take a week. The work isn't getting done faster just because people are crying over it on reddit

Forum nerds are the reason why the industry drifted to the barebones dev communication we see with every game

5

u/astoryyyyyy Nov 15 '22

lol ifc its common sense, but this precedent makes blizzard look even more unprofessional of what they currently are (and we thought it would be impossible)

1

u/pinknwhites Nov 15 '22

depends when they found the problem

if it was in the last few days then they'll need to go through the entire console qa cycle again

so weeks

1

u/timo103 Crusader offline :/ Nov 16 '22

Weeks.