help with an answer

[imnotgeoff]

i was thinking about this whole 360 patch thing last night and got a bit confused so was wondering if someone could help me with an answer

1)im pretty sure that a while ago,i saw a post BY Anton saying the patch was done,did i imagine that?

[STINGERSIX78]

nope....
patch is ready....
patch is at ms....
patch has quality issues....
patch was send to ms again.....
etc....
ms failed....
publisher failed....
ms failed...
publisher failed....

a loooong sad story....

[imnotgeoff]

so then i think someones lying then,as if it was made then sent to Q.A
why then has Anton now turned round and said

"Unfortunately, no good news.
Publisher thinks that it is not commercially reasonable to create, QA, and release title update for X360"

that statement sounds to me as though it never existed in the first place,look carefully at the word CREATE,meaning to make something

[SEE]

After much searching by Robotic Pope, this is the only reply from Anton that can be found that references to the Xbox patch, all others relate only to the PS3. Note that he initially talks about development and members are quidk to ask for clarification on this.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=11460

[InfiniteStates]

Originally Posted by imnotgeoff

so then i think someones lying then,as if it was made then sent to Q.A
why then has Anton now turned round and said

"Unfortunately, no good news.
Publisher thinks that it is not commercially reasonable to create, QA, and release title update for X360"

that statement sounds to me as though it never existed in the first place,look carefully at the word CREATE,meaning to make something

Don't take Anton's posts too literally - English is obviously not his first language, so quibbling over particular word use is not much good. Chances are the two versions of BoP share a large percentage of the same code, so in all likelyhood the patches aren't that different. But there may be connection or standards issues, and the failure to fix them has led to canning the patch.

I must say I'm surprised that the XBox failed over PS3 though as it is reportedly the easier of the two systems to develop for.

[winny]

Here's what I think happened.

Dev's go to publishers saying it needs patch..
Publishers say can't do it sales are poor and that if the DLC goes well then maybe.
DLC bombs..

Devs do a very cheap (self funded) and quick patch on PS3 to see if it has any effect on sales of the game, it doesn't (there's no way the patch took 4 months to develop, it's minimal to say the least).

money for xbox patch is dependant on that, so no xbox patch.

Publishers pull the plug.

RIP BoP, sequal with different publisher? or abandon consoles?

[dkwookie]

I can't see a sequel on consoles, as depressing as that is. The online play is great in bop but as good as it is it's lite compared to other games. Leaderboards are terminally broken and punish good players. There is no persistant ranking up and little customisation options. It's a fact that tacked on multiplayer is not sufficient these days. To get people off modern warfare or mag a game needs online depth. Casual players won't stick with bop becasue there is no reward for persevering.
I have been playing solidly since the september launch and I am still not bored with it. But if guys like mcq, gilly and winny were not playing I am not sure I would still be playing as much as I am
I hope that if a sequel is planned the devs take a long hard look at some of our sugestions on this board for gameplay features we would like to see