New Client for OB post CB?

mecool
mecool Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2008 in General Discussion
Will we need to download a new client for OB after CB has ended? Or is it possible for CB to be patched into OB?
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  • rev
    rev Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    It will most likely be a patch, unless some major bug is magically found that requires a new client.
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  • mecool
    mecool Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    rev wrote: »
    It will most likely be a patch, unless some major bug is magically found that requires a new client.

    Most likely doesn't really help. But thanks for trying.
  • rev
    rev Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Hey that hasn't been confirmed yet, but I'm expecting a patch, very rarely is it a new client to change it over, but then again I could be wrong.
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  • greystok
    greystok Posts: 62
    edited August 2008
    PW/my there was only a patch once it went from cb to ob however this doesnt make it 100% certain that pw/IN will be the same.
  • nounours
    nounours Posts: 453
    edited August 2008
    99% sure it will be just a patch, who's enough stupid to make people downloead 2.5Gb again?
    even a 1gb patch will be better!
  • kazuma
    kazuma Posts: 193 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Nonunours just pwns the thread! xD
    But seriously it should be a patch,
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  • hypnos
    hypnos Posts: 97 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    There are several PW servers already. It would be almost impossible to have a major bug. I guess it will be a patch to fix some translation errors.
  • mecool
    mecool Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I am still hoping an admin can answer this.
  • ence
    ence Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Not an admin here, but they said that the entire game would be available in Beta, so I would say that there would only be minimal patching. Again, unless, as they said before, there is a major bug found, the answer would be "no". The Client would just be available for download for all users instead of just Beta users.
  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    >.< for all we know the game may not even work the first day and we will have to down load the CB 2 times. the perfect nightmare!!!
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    douglas wrote: »
    >.< for all we know the game may not even work the first day and we will have to down load the CB 2 times. the perfect nightmare!!!

    Since we saw some footage done on the test server, I think it will work.
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    Since we saw some footage done on the test server, I think it will work.

    ^_^ what if the installer is messed up. they dont reinstall to make the game all they have to do is run the new script.
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    douglas wrote: »
    ^_^ what if the installer is messed up.

    We will likely use the same installer used on the other versions and that have been tested a few millions times already :D
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    We will likely use the same installer used on the other versions and that have been tested a few millions times already :D

    ^_^ what if the american download server crashes just as the download windo is about to finish.
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    douglas wrote: »
    ^_^ what if the american download server crashes just as the download windo is about to finish.

    Then you'll be out of luck, and pray you use some download manager that allow you to resume. Anyway, it will quite likely be hosted on a few sites.
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • sealed
    sealed Posts: 781
    edited August 2008
    Hope I can download the client on FlashGet =)

    sealed~
  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    sealed wrote: »
    Hope I can download the client on FlashGet =)

    sealed~

    lol worried O.o mabey ill host online
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  • sealed
    sealed Posts: 781
    edited August 2008
    douglas wrote: »
    lol worried O.o mabey ill host online

    Yay awsomeness =)

    +1

    sealed~
  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    hmm wonder if i can host after i download ill have to look into setting up my second computer as a download manager
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  • severan
    severan Posts: 703 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    CB is for testing server latency and the game settings ^^ i doubt the patch or client dl
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  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    severan wrote: »
    CB is for testing server latency and the game settings ^^ i doubt the patch or client dl

    >.< darn lol i was looking foward to all the problems
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  • tenkei
    tenkei Posts: 63
    edited August 2008
    One thing I can tell you guys that even though PW is out many other places and works there the unknowns for the US version still has many potentials to create issues.

    You can have:

    1. Incorrect Setting on the Server creating severe lag issues (Lag issues ALWAYS reveal holes in the coding)
    2. Bad network configuration server side creating bottlenecks or DDoA prevention setups that are to aggresive and prevent users from reaching the server
    3. Since there is a Cash Shop means the company probably has XMLs they send to a banking entity, if it's one thing I learned with banking entities you can have them do the exact same setup over 1,000 times and they still **** it up (From actual experience, my companies banking entity I work with gets it wrong every time)
    4. Corrupted updater or incorrectly configured updater, it could try to update from the wrong source.
    5. Incorrectly configured client registry, might try to connect to wrong PW Servers or even try to use setting for display that won't work with the majority of players.

    Then also with this IP restrictions to block out regions that already have a PW server of their own, they could easily miskey IP Networks and ban an IP range that is US. Then also depends on the code, if they had to convert any from Non-Unicode of another Region. Then there is a lot of risk of missing 1 simple character that could make a significant difference, in behavior of the program. Which the Non-Unicode I could see happening since many of the compressed files have foriegn characters.

    From how they are approching this CB though it seems more promotional and Hardware based for tests. So a simple patch should be all that's needed.
  • douglas
    douglas Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    tenkei wrote: »
    Then also with this IP restrictions to block out regions that already have a PW server of their own, they could easily miskey IP Networks and ban an IP range that is US. Then also depends on the code, if they had to convert any from Non-Unicode of another Region. Then there is a lot of risk of missing 1 simple character that could make a significant difference, in behavior of the program. Which the Non-Unicode I could see happening since many of the compressed files have foriegn characters.

    From how they are approching this CB though it seems more promotional and Hardware based for tests. So a simple patch should be all that's needed.

    ^_^ ip restrictions would be bad for sat users like me some sat companys use non us ip's when there sat gets loaded down with users.
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