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by Jerry Whorebach 07/18/2012, 7:32pm PDT |
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We’re bringing the first FEZ patch online.
It’s the same patch.
We’re not going to patch the patch.
Why not? Because microsoft would charge us tens of thousands of dollars to re-certify the game.
And because as it turns out, the save file delete bug only happens to less than a percent of players. It’s a shitty numbers game to be playing for sure, but as a small independent, paying so much money for patches makes NO SENSE AT ALL. especially when you consider the alternative. Had FEZ been released on steam instead of XBLA, the game would have been fixed two weeks after release, at no cost to us. And if there was an issue with that patch, we could have fixed that right away too!
We believe the save file corruption issue mostly happened to players who had completed, or almost completed the game. If you hadn’t already seen most of what FEZ had to offer, your save file is probably safe. It doesn’t happen if you start a new game.
We believe the current patch is safe for an overwhelming majority of players.
The patch fixes almost everything that’s been wrong with the game since launch. The framerate issues, the loading, the skips, the death loops, everything! All that stuff is fixed! And right now, nobody can get to it since the patch was pulled. For 99% of people, it makes FEZ a better game.
To the less-than-1% who are getting screwed, we sincerely apologize. We know this hurts you the most, because you’re the ones who put the most times into the game. And this breaks our hearts. We hope you dont think back on your time spent in FEZ as a total waste.
Microsoft gave us a choice: either pay a ton of money to re-certify the game and issue a new patch (which for all we know could introduce new issues, for which we’d need yet another costly patch), or simply put the patch back online. They looked into it, and the issue happens so rarely that they still consider the patch to be “good enough”.
It wasn’t an easy decision, but in the end, paying such a large sum of money to jump through so many hoops just doesn’t make any sense. We already owe microsoft a LOT of money for the privilege of being on their platform. People often mistakenly believe that we got paid by Microsoft for being exclusive to their platform. Nothing could be further from the truth. WE pay THEM.
So we’re going to go ahead and put Title Update back online, and for a vast majority of people it’s going to make FEZ a better game.
Thank you for your understanding and continuing support.
Sincerely,
The Polytron Team
I love their reasoning here. The bug only hits players near the end of their games, and how many people are actually going to finish this piece of shit? Maybe 1%? Fez isn't the kind of game you buy because you want to play it all the way through, it's the kind of game you buy because you want to show your support for the INDIE REVOLUTION, man. It's basically a T-shirt with a picture of Jonathan Blow's cherubic face on it, and if you don't like it, you're free to take fifteen dollars and shove it up your ass. Unless you already gave Phil your money, in which case I'm very sorry... that you were born retarded :( |
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Remember how the patch was corrupting savegames? That's not getting fixed. by Jerry Whorebach 07/18/2012, 7:32pm PDT 
Why doesn't he just win another IGF grand prize to pay for the patch? NT by Worm 07/18/2012, 8:20pm PDT 
you are only allowed to vote for your friends twice NT by jeep 07/18/2012, 8:22pm PDT 
Maybe he can design an exclusive Fez DLC Pick for Peter Molyneux's cube? NT by Worm 07/19/2012, 6:50am PDT 
Why does Microsoft need 10s of thousan-- one sec by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/18/2012, 9:41pm PDT 
Also there were way too many commas in that post. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/18/2012, 10:02pm PDT 
Microsoft has to test each patch to make sure it doesn't-- wait, hold on a secon NT by Jerry Whorebach 07/18/2012, 10:12pm PDT 
But that money should come from the Xbox Gold Li-- nnngh, pardon by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/19/2012, 7:12am PDT 
Yeah its bullshit, just like everything Microsoft does or has ever done. by Jerry Whorebach 07/19/2012, 8:26am PDT 
What are your theories on Sony also charging developers for patches? NT by (Sony actually had a VCR division) 07/19/2012, 2:36pm PDT 
What part of "colossal fucking dinosaur failure" do you feel needs elaboration? by Jerry Whorebach 07/19/2012, 4:48pm PDT 
"SCEA hasn't charged an indie for a patch in over three years." by Jerry Whorebach 04/29/2013, 1:58pm PDT 
Someone charge that man for a patch. NT by Pac n' Pal 04/30/2013, 10:24pm PDT 
Are those faux suspenders? by Pal 04/30/2013, 10:26pm PDT 
It's a lanyard for some event. NT by Calm down. 04/30/2013, 10:48pm PDT 
The event is called Tuesday. It's a vanity lanyard. It's a *vanyard*. NT by Nick Suttner 05/01/2013, 12:51am PDT 
The shirt has a flesh-colored collar. It's an optical ILLUSION. NT by Last 05/01/2013, 7:10am PDT 
Are you sure you're discussing games by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/01/2013, 7:36am PDT 
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