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old.ghengis

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anyone else not surprised that the first language available on the test server is.....French! ?
and obviously german will be next and us poor english speakers will be lucky to even get a look in before the patch goes live.
 
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old.Organ-Grinder

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im not suprised in theleast mate . but its only a test server and because the patches get sent to goa in english format . i was expecting them to test german and french 1st ... it willprobably be a week of testing of each langauge and then it wil be patched live to euro servers "i hope" . im only eager to have gorre on english test so i can copy my char there and have a wander aorud the battle grounds and familierise myself with the terrain . most the other stuff is cool also . but i think bg's is main intro in these patches . it will make rvr a lot more fun for those people who love rvr and dont wanna power lvl . and are fed up of getting ganked by 10000000 lvl 40+'s everytime they goto emain :) . it will be nice to constantly come across green-red enemys
 
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old.Verata

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The most important part of the patch to test is the translations, so it makes sense to start with French and German versions. But don't worry - you'll get your turn when it becomes Gorrecalibur. Then you can play for a few days, get your char wiped and redo it all over again when it goes live...

:)
 
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tilde

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I cant see any fun with Gorre if ur chars can get wiped all sudden, dont see the point by testing a complete patch but it another language, sorry but this idea is silly imo :(
 
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Alrindel

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The point is to test the patch, not to make a fun server for you to play on. Since there are a lot more german and french players than english players, it makes sense to start with those languages so more testing will get done.

And I like the idea of being able to try my ranger for a couple of days on Gorre when they port the Excalibur database over, might let me try some new things at no risk :cool:
 
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tilde

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What are they gonna look for, spellcheck and grammar? :)
 
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old.Thanatlos

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I believe like many others that GOA is going about this thing all wrong.. they're trying to do mythic's job atm.. And that work has already been done.

Providing us with a test server which imho is totally unnecessary.. spelling and small quest errors can be corrected with small patches and do not need extensive testing.

The reason they delay patching the english server is also absurd, the reasoning that germans and french would storm the english servers if the patch was available there sooner.. lol, why would they want patch 1.48 if they can get 1.50 on US servers.

I don't mind waiting for patches but the way GOA is doing this is absurd. Mythic takes 1 working week, maybe 1.5 to think of/fix/test/add problems and GOA spends 2 months just translating these changes. I think they were unprepared for the structure the code is provided in and that they need to translate the entire code every single time.
This would explain for the time taken and also heralds no good news for the future.

DAOC is quickly getting boring and GOA's work is really speeding the exodus to other games because the new content flow is seriously hampered by their inability to view the desires of the mainstream european player. I bet that more than half the german and french players would rather get the english version which would be patched one week after the american patch than this current "let's throw in 3 patches at once every 3 months".

Anyway, I wish they had SOME contact with the players about their opinions but they seem to do whatever they can to avoid that.
 
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Alrindel

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The reason they delay patching the english server is also absurd, the reasoning that germans and french would storm the english servers if the patch was available there sooner.. lol, why would they want patch 1.48 if they can get 1.50 on US servers.
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That's the reason that keeps getting repeated over and over by people on this bulletin board, it's not the reason that was given once by GOA, which was that they were not currently able or willing to support multiple game versions when all three languages currently use the same patcher (that little loader program that runs before the main game client runs).

DAOC is quickly getting boring and GOA's work is really speeding the exodus to other games because the new content flow is seriously hampered by their inability to view the desires of the mainstream european player.
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Wow, you have the numbers of subscribers to DAOC europe? How many players are currently registered? How much fewer is that from three months ago? How many have quit that you would describe it as an exodus? I have not seen this information available anywhere else, so I am very curious to finally have some hard data. Unless you're just making it up, of course.

I bet that more than half the german and french players would rather get the english version which would be patched one week after the american patch than this current "let's throw in 3 patches at once every 3 months".
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You said exactly the opposite just above.
 
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Flimgoblin

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Originally posted by tilde
What are they gonna look for, spellcheck and grammar? :)
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More things like happened last time...

Disappearing vendors, corrupted character databases...

Vaults disappearing...

etc. etc.
 
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Alrindel

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More things like happened last time...

Disappearing vendors, corrupted character databases...

Vaults disappearing...

etc. etc.
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Casters' nukes turning into heal spells... :)
 
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Aeiedil

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hehe, Alrindel, in rvr coulda been a whole new way of cross-teaming and dueling ;) see who can heal the other the fastest :D
 
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tilde

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But, all the have to do is translate - how does spellerrors and grammarfaults occur negative dmg on nukes? :clap:
 
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Keri

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Am I the only one who gets tired of people flaming GOA for the translation process? Do so many people really think all that is involved, is translating words? Gimme a break! If you don't have a clue about what is involved, just quit whining!
 
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tilde

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Im not flaming them, im just think its a bad idea- put Gorre up as Pendragon is instead
 
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Alrindel

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But, all the have to do is translate - how does spellerrors and grammarfaults occur negative dmg on nukes? :clap:
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They don't. The gameplay bugs come from the patches that are provided by Mythic, which are custom made for the european servers and are not the same patches that Mythic themselves used on their own servers. Up until now they were only tested by GOA's staff, which wasn't a realistic enough test to catch every problem (like the reverse nukes).
 
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old.¥ØÐÄ

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Gorres now running in german langauge . so that was roughly5 days of french if same for germans gorre will be english on monday ,maybe and IF it all goes well maybe we will havethe patch by next week end . because obviously if they have tested the french translations . and the german , english should be straight forward because it was originally english , then there should be no reason at all imo to send the patches live to all euro serversby next weekend . if all languages get tested same amount of days .
 
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K0nah

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The new patch comes _just_ after the 3 month subscription renewal... And u can bet the next patch we see will be in another 3 months.. Dangle tha Carr0tt!
 
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old.yaruar

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Originally posted by ghengis
anyone else not surprised that the first language available on the test server is.....French! ?
and obviously german will be next and us poor english speakers will be lucky to even get a look in before the patch goes live.
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It's to give them something to do whilst we watch the football ;-P
 
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