Topic: Major Switch games which haven't needed any updates or patches at all

@rallydefault
If you stood back and thought for a second you'd realise the absurdity of asking "why patch minor issues" here. The complaint against patches from the people pushing this line is that "games used to release finished" and that "the quality must be lower now" due to "lazy devs"

And here we have a patch post release that add some minor fixes most people won't encounter. For a game that by all accounts was already a quality release. And you're asking why they're bothering.....

Perhaps because patches aren't as a result of lazy devs? Perhaps releasing this patch shows that the developer cares about the release and wants to fix these issues. That, despite the narrative from some, patches allow games to be of a higher quality than they would have been without them

I don't know, seems absurd to me for someone to ask why a game would bother to fix a bug in response to a comment complaining about people saying the existence of the fix is a sign of the game being "lower quality"

I'm all for patching - certainly beats the days where game-breaking bugs make their way into the final code. In most cases, I don't view it as lazy. Some though...Aspyr seem to be downright lazy.

I'd think that most major games are just too complex these days to be released in a state where everything works and no patches are required. They're made by hundreds, often thousands, of people over the course of several years, and there are just too many interacting systems for QA testers to cover them exhaustively.

As such, developers are going to have a dedicated patch team that's still working on the game after launch. Typically, this is just for a few months, but in some cases you get to see games getting overhauled for a year or more. They have to be prepared to for the possibility that there's something major or even game-breaking, but if the only things they have to fix are minor bugs, rarely encountered by most players, that's what they'll do.

@skywake
lol dude...you still haven't answered my question. And that's all it was. A question. I never made a "complaint."

This clearly got under your skin.

@rallydefault
To be honest, it certainly does get under my skin when a certain group of people complain about patches. It's literally my day job to work through a list of bugs and features with the intent of producing higher quality software. Largely through patches and minor revisions

So when people question that and try to argue that this process is a sign of "lazy devs"? Of course it gets under my skin. Because the claim is a load of BS, and I should know more than most

And I did answer your question. They patched it because, despite what those people think, they actually care about the quality of the product they release. If they didn't they wouldn't bother with post release support at all. The game has already sold millions, they have their money, they don't have to continue to support it. But they are. And that's unambiguously a good thing

@skywake Well said good sir. Well said