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patch 1 - October
patch 2 - November
patch 3 - December

Of course you would call it a winter update, not a fall update, even though the first patch would be during fall.


I'm only going with this because moving the patch sequence by one month would cause Nexon to NOT maximize their ROI, given the release window of all the other major products/software intended for gamers. Again, if you're an executive at Nexon, you want to deploy the killer app part of the content BEFORE the competition releases theirs, not alongside it.

Why would -anyone- want Big Bang on the 2nd week of November? We all know there will be bugs, we all know this is not going to be a smoothly transitioned patch, we all know there will be at least a few server checks/emergency patches. Noone is going to be able to enjoy Thanksgiving vacation like this. Noone in his/her right mind will want to charge NX during these potential rollback periods because of what happened not too long ago. Did we all forget about people who charged NX for cubes/potentials and got rolled back and received their compensation way later (with some still waiting on said compensation) and lost their godly potential'ed stats? Why would you risk that again? Nobody in their right mind would do it during such a vulnerable time. Would you want to deal with alot of these issues or buy the new Fable or Kinect? Would people in general wait it out for more Big Bang content or jump into WoW Cataclysm?

Whatever time you think BB will come, add a few weeks to that time because that's when the game will actually be playable and safe in terms of NX charging. When it comes to the holiday season, you don't want to lose those weeks to downtime. This is why I argue for Big Bang to come as early as possible. Releasing it after January is a missed opportunity.

The current estimated date for the November patch is the 3rd, since that's the day Ulu says it will be available. So that's three weeks for the game to stabilize after the patch. I would say that's enough.