Paradox Designs

This Tuesday, the Mercenaries 2 update was supposed to come out. It did, but not in the sense in which i could use it. Pandemic, contrary to what they have previously said, did not release the Xbox360 update first, and the PS3 update later, rather, did an about face and released the PS3 update, with the Xbox360 update coming out “sometime in November.” This is the second time they have delayed the Xbox360 update, with no reason, but there is likely some internal reason.

The update was likely delayed because of a Microsoft validation. Microsoft validates everything that goes onto Xbox Live, to keep the QoS nominal^[1]. But this is not a decent excuse, as other game companies set dates for their updates, and deliver them on their update. Pandemic, under EA, did not do this, on multiple occasions. This has many fans upset, myself included. Perhaps what is more irritating than the delays is the complete lack of news from the studio. No information about this is avalible from the corperate website, far more is found out in the forums, and is done by their one Administrator for the forums, who seems to be in his own isolation cell within the company.

Poor business model, if you ask me. This will be the last game i purchase from Pandemic/EA partnership, unless the Xbox360 update has something significant that could cause such a delay.

1. The quality of service rating, in this case, Microsoft keeps it as high as they can [↩]