Bryan Johnson wrote...
We did not sign a contract that says "we will do balance changes every week". We try to be consistant because of consistancy, which has led out fans to be conditioned. This is both "powerful" and a curse, it requires less in the way of communication but is very difficult to break away from and can lead to anger and misunderstanding.
3 weeks ago more testing was required, it happens when a balance change is over 50 changes
2 weeks ago we had a halloween challenge which fell on halloween we also did 2 things we hadn't done before. A new banner and replacing objectives. Then after that we also had to remove the halloween changes on the monday, that verification didnt come without a cost either.
1 week ago we had N7 challenge, which we wanted to land on N7 day. Furthermore if we did do 2 server pushes (one tuesday, one on wednesday) it makes it very hard to test ie we would have less than a day to test our push on wednesday.
This week we had rememberance day on sunday, which (because it is a stat/public holiday) we were given monday off as a day in lieu. I am not sure about you all but I certainly enjoy my days, and appreciate it when I get it for a holiday that means something to me. So really Wednesday is the 2nd day of the work week which you could argue is when we release balance changes, because we have generally released on a wednesday if monday is a holiday.
I do not believe any aspect of having a day delay because of a holiday instead of having us work late is an outrage.
Bryan, Ernest... these guys saying these things are ridiculous.
Bioware is doing an amazing job with this game, really.
The only thing I could ask is oficially transfer the balance day to wednesday. If not possible, please try warning about the delay more earlier to avoid more people get anxious. You NOT HAVE to do this, only if possible of course.
We like so much of this game Bryan/Ernest... so anything new, changes, dlc, new char make us very exciting and waiting with strong anxiety. Everything have a negative side, but I think this is a reward for all this great work placed on this game.