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| 0s | when we're planning for a major update |
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| 3s | that's a huge undertaking that's months |
| 6s | and months and months of work and |
| 7s | preparation and planning that's not the |
| 10s | same for a minor update |
| 12s | [Applause] |
| 17s | welcome to forged in eternum where we |
| 19s | talked about new world uh today we're |
| 21s | going to be talking about how we prepare |
| 24s | and plan for a minor update so we'll |
| 27s | talk about the difference between minor |
| 28s | major updates I'm Katie I'm here with |
| 31s | Derek who is one of our former release |
| 34s | managers and is our senior live |
| 38s | operations producer so let's talk about |
| 40s | what goes into like what first what's |
| 44s | the difference between a minor and a |
| 46s | major |
| 47s | um well for us our major updates |
| 50s | um typically revolve around delivering |
| 52s | new content new game systems new world |
| 56s | events to the players so these are the |
| 59s | uh the patches where we introduce a ton |
| 62s | of new things to do |
| 64s | um conversely for our minor updates |
| 67s | these are typically focused more around |
| 69s | quality of life updates bug fixes |
| 73s | um sometimes uh New Mt sorry new MTX |
| 78s | skins and other sort of small changes |
| 81s | that aren't quite new and groundbreaking |
| 84s | but still we want to deliver to the |
| 86s | company or to the players uh quicker |
| 89s | than our usual Cadence for our major |
| 92s | updates yeah so a major update has all |
| 95s | like the big key features and stuff and |
| 97s | then the minor updates are kind of the |
| 99s | in-between ones if the players want to |
| 101s | think about like the Cadence of them so |
| 104s | you have those big beats and then these |
| 105s | these smaller updates are matches that |
| 107s | they see between them |
| 109s | so when we're planning for a major |
| 112s | update that's a huge undertaking that's |
| 115s | months and months and months of work and |
| 117s | preparation and planning that's not the |
| 119s | same for a minor update it is not months |
| 122s | and months and months of preparation and |
| 124s | planning definitely the small ones allow |
| 126s | us to have a little bit of agility in |
| 128s | terms of uh reacting to what the players |
| 131s | are experiencing in the now so as you |
| 134s | said the major ones are a huge effort |
| 136s | from the entire team and uh from |
| 139s | development to testing to play testing |
| 142s | it all is a very time consuming process |
| 145s | and then so some fixes can't wait for |
| 149s | these large updates and then so we got |
| 152s | to move quickly improve our game |
| 154s | experience and then so these uh minor |
| 157s | updates allow us to accomplish just that |
| 159s | but we don't just put it's I mean it |
| 162s | sounds like this is where we're going to |
| 163s | put in all of the little bug fixes that |
| 166s | players have been asking for but that's |
| 168s | not really what the minor updates are |
| 170s | for you're they're more likely to |
| 171s | actually see that in the major update |
| 173s | because what we do with the minor |
| 175s | updates is we do the high priority |
| 178s | things exactly so we have like a rubric |
| 180s | of what that means where we look at the |
| 183s | severity of the problem and then the |
| 185s | priority of it so you know is it related |
| 187s | to content that we just released is it |
| 190s | impacting a large group of people is it |
| 192s | impacting a small group of people but in |
| 195s | a really major way and so we take all of |
| 197s | that into consideration and we meet |
| 199s | every week multiple times a week to |
| 201s | discuss those yeah almost every day |
| 203s | pretty much yeah um and yeah exactly |
| 206s | it's exactly the things that cannot wait |
| 208s | for those monthlies or major updates |
| 211s | that |
| 212s | um that allow us to move quickly to |
| 215s | bring these high impact changes uh to |
| 218s | the players got it cool yeah so now it's |
| 221s | time for the community question what |
| 223s | minor update do you need in your life to |
| 226s | be more agile cool let's talk about it |
| 228s | uh and if you like the show you want to |
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| 232s | some feedback on you know what we can do |
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| 246s | [Applause] |
| 253s | thank you |
| 255s | [Music] |
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