[bf1942] Hotfix release time upgraded from 'soon' to 'not far off'

[Lee Latham]

In their defense, as a software professional myself, I can tell you that 
they are just trying to not lie about it.   If you ever give a customer an 
estimated date, they always treat it as a promised delivery date, so it's 
better, when possible, to be vague.

At 05:42 AM 7/15/2005, you wrote:
>oo look it's in testing, that really fills me with confidence!!
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Renegade Tyrant" <tyrant at rngd.net>
>To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:31 AM
>Subject: [bf1942] Hotfix release time upgraded from 'soon' to 'not far off'
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>>Last Week the 'hotfix' for the failed 1.01 patch was said to be available
>>'soon' (after it was also said to be a 'one line fix'). In a dramatic move,
>>in a whole week this one line of codework has gone from 'soon' to 'not far
>>off'.
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>> From EA's latest community update:
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>>"Listen up soldiers, this update is to inform you that EA and DICE have a
>>HOTFIX candidate for Battlefield 2 v1.01 in testing now. What does this
>>mean? It means the fix for the memory leak found in v1.01 is being tested
>>and will soon be available. While we're unable to specify an exact release
>>date, rest assured, it's not far off and we will keep you updated through
>>this web space"
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>>I expect next weeks announcement will be 'any time now'
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>>Their community announcement also 'announced' that Gamespy is having some
>>problems...and in other news...they let us know that water is 'wet'
>>http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/editorial.jsp?sr
>>c=update_071405
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