Running Our of Patience With This Completely Botched DLC Launch

Ah yes, I remember this quite fondly. Everyone was pretty disappointed since all the hype had been building for some legit content only to be gated, well, by the gate.

Many people left the game to take a "break" and most did not come back, myself included.

I don't think we are up for "what was the worst" debate...
I mean I understand and highly respect all your works on DCUO for all the players out there.
(Especially for noobs like me)

Battle For Earth was released in 2012, almost 10 years ago.

back then iphone 5 was launching on Tim Cook's VERY first presentation on WWDC...

we are now in 2021, almost 2022... technology has improved a LOT, so as payrolls, also we're in era of COVID
People in the world saying 'age comes with wisdom', meaning you should learn from past and what it's called "experience"

the "experience" we are witnessing or hence called suffering may have happened before but things need to be improved
after all those what happened in the past and DEVs must know what they are dealing with...

I'm gonna have to disagree. Home Turf launch was literally unplayable lol.

That was the first new content in almost a year if I remember correctly. Hence the hype.

and this will give something? last DLC most of the bugs were voiced by the players on the test server ... but they still got on the live server .... this DLC is a similar situation, even the bug with artifacts was voiced by Obsidian ... but it "successfully" migrated to the live server .. ...

And I thought Episode 29: Riddled With Bugs was rough.

Obsidian and the others couldn't figure out to trigger it, it seemed to happen at random.

Indeed.

to add to it. the only new feeling mission is the raid. weve seen moonbase and the alert is in our league halls

True but they put in mechanics there i rather have new mechanics then a new „map“. But the openworld is definetly too large imo

The raid map feels like a combination of Stryker's Island and Metropolis City Hall.

DLCs used to be on test longer in the past...did absolute ZERO to prevent issues. Your assertion was proven wrong years ago.

Sorry for the sarcasm ... but maybe then DI needs to hire one of those exploiters who seem to have found a technique without much difficulty ...hire not ban... lol

Home Turf wasn't bad on PC. So I don't know how it was on PS.
HoF you could not play on any server at all. Took them 3 days to fix that. Then the loot issues. It was just a nightmare.

Since they can't control Sony, Microsoft and now Nintendo, this is how they have to do things.

In the end the glitch was console only so after the first day so couldn't try to reproduce if I wanted to

The players spamming the open world bosses would crash the PS3 hard.

For HoF or HT?

As HoF was like that on the PC too. It literally broke zones in both Gotham and Metropolis. Players were getting stuck in areas. Holy heck, it was terrible time and I understand it was far worse on the PS3. So yeah...

It's a shame a lot of these bugs are exclusive to console but I suppose it can't be helped since the PTS is PC.

I had a feeling that things would be buggy several months ago when the schedule came out for STU and THIS DLC, eventually.

I cannot remember the last time a major DLC was released in DECEMBER.....can anyone else? And ESPECIALLY during a Game-Changing year like THIS ONE was?

I always thought it was Strategic Planning for major DLCs to be released in November - to give plenty of time to fix stuff before the Devs THEMSELVES go on much needed Christmas Vacation.

This HAS TO place a HUGE time crunch on them. Granted - it's their jobs to present a DLC that is functional and ready to go. But with the time crunch I can see why things are crappy like they are ATM.

We have the Christmas Seasonal that's released this month...and if you look closely at that I think the Feats listed for it are a bit bare. That could tell us something right there - as far as resources or attention focused elsewhere.

I believe everything will sort itself out sooner than later. They WILL fix everything, and sooner than later.

For ME - I channeled my frustration into my Water Alt and got here out of the house. I did the DC Dailies, the bosses, the duo, alert and the new raid and then promptly sent HER materials over to my main for their EVENTUAL addition into my augments and my OP neck - once everything is fixed.

It WILL get fixed - sooner than later. Doesn't make things easier for us RIGHT NOW but it will get better.