more from Cynthia, our Lady CoH:
When it comes to discussion surrounding patches, we're discussing how we can better strike a balance between communicating with you folks more, and not creating 'new' or different issues from more transparent communication.
If we pre-communicate too much, problems can arise such as saying a feature is coming out that we then decide to hold back due to newly discovered testing requirements. We know you guys want more transparency and we will try to bring that - but we are going to walk up to that line slowly, so we don't step over it. A lot of you would understand the situation I've just described, because technology is a beast of it's own. But a lot of people wouldn't, either. So we have to work out to what degree we can provide more information, and to what degree we have to stick with 'wait and see'.
There will always be some stuff that is NOT pre-communicated. The two new multiplayer maps? They were meant as a surprise for the free weekend. It kind of defeats the purpose of a surprise to give advance warning The team could have held them back and released them with the other stuff coming, but decided it would be great to get them out early.
So here we are.
I just hope that some of you guys get into the game and try them out over the weekend, plus get a chance to play around with whatever aspects of our franchise you haven't purchased yet!