FP Comment

[Chris]

I made this comment (http://www.xboxic.com/news/1154#comments) earlier on the FP.
I wish Microsoft would inform us how long an average Arcade Title/Marketplace item takes to get through testing. That’ll be really fucked up if in the middle of August, we’re still waiting for this demo. And for the whole ‘Not releasing on Friday’ thing, I think that’s retarded. Their reasoning behind it makes sense, I know. But when does everyone have the most free time to spend downloading 700MB demos? The WEEKENDS. Yeah, Bob the manager. You might just have to make your employees come in during the weekend. Boo-Hoo. Every other fucking business does it.

Am I right, or completely off?

[Curry]

Well I'd also like to know the exact process and why the f**k they managed to miss nearly every announced deadline so far :)

As for the second part: no it makes a lot of sense not to release on Friday. The fact that they can get people in in the weekends to fix it doesn't make it any smarter. Why ask for problems when it's so easy to avoid them?

[TRIGGER M4N]

Funny how all the premium content gets here on time, but as soon as a free item is wanted, they start delaying.

[Chris]

If you aren't going to make your employees to work on Friday, make them work harder from Monday to Thursday. Don't even mention any dates until you're completely confirmed, like Major Nelson does with his announcements. Knowing what could've been is worse than not knowing at all. The Prey demo is the latest example.

[Curry]

Fact of the matter ofcourse is that Microsoft didn't announce the Prey demo, 3D Realms did. As with most if not all of the delayed content.

[Chris]

Microsoft should put rules on developers for announcing content, shouldn't they? Once again, the consumer gets fucked.

[Curry]

Agree with that absolutely :)

[Nino]

Lets hope they fix all of this before that Saint's Row demo comes out, it's a demo I really want to play because this game could really go either way.

[xboxguy]

Lets hope they fix all of this before that Saint's Row demo comes out, it's a demo I really want to play because this game could really go either way.
especially with the online play, im interested in that mainly.

[kidkit]

This is wild, i didn't expect them to actually release content on Friday... But there it is!

[Curry]

This is wild, i didn't expect them to actually release content on Friday... But there it is!
I spoke to my MS PR contacts about it and what I read between the lines was that this was them doing damage control over the recent f**kups, and that they will have people working this weekend to make sure problems get fixed if they do happen, thus allowing them to break the Friday rule :)

Honestly, three cheers to MS from me, they did an awfully good job on acknowledging and correcting the screwups from last few weeks :)

[Rival24]

Not only the last few weeks. You remember the GRAW demo? Also a Lot of other stuff went wrong. I only hope they'll try to screw up less in the future.

[Chris]

Not only the last few weeks. You remember the GRAW demo? Also a Lot of other stuff went wrong. I only hope they'll try to screw up less in the future.

Me too. God damn.

[cybermans]

The reason to not release stuff will probably the support thing.
During the weekends the support department isn't really overcrowded in the weekends. This is also the reason AmericasArmy didn't release at the end of the week.