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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smbhax" data-source="post: 67983" data-attributes="member: 396">Small correction: Table packs 1 and 2 (MM and Bride, CV and FH) are also part of the core game--they must have been included in the initial download, because if you check your Downloads list in the PSN store, you'll see that their download size is only 100KB, ie they're just unlock keys. So those tables can be updated in the existing system.Incidentally, "slap in the face" tells me you haven't thought this out entirely clearly. I know you're frustrated with their inability to update the tables as they are--their failure to have thought this through properly from the beginning--and so am I, but no game developer actually wants to slap you in the face, even figuratively. If Bobby sounds a little uncertain about something, that's because he doesn't have all the information; he can't read our minds, and I'm sure we don't want him spending all his time trying to read all the forum posts. Actually what was more worrisome to me when it comes to his uncertainty in the PS update arena was when he finished talking about the PS3 update problem with "maybe for PS4 we'll change that if we can" (emphasis mine). It seems to me quite unlikely that there's no way, or will be no way, to do this kind of update properly. Well, I'm sure he'll figure it out before launch...and it's up to us to make the critical nature of the issue clear to him, but carrying around this ridiculous idea of an us-vs-them mentality does not help. They want our money, which means they want to make us as happy as they can given the resources they have available.Also, obviously all of us here are hardcore enough to be more than willing to download whatever would be needed to get all the table fixes they've made, so a poll is kind of redundant; if I was a developer facing this situation though, I'd have to think long and hard about the extra work involved in putting together a revamped version of the game when that effort won't pay for itself directly, and the potential for confusing and possibly losing some of the non-hardcore playerbase. And it's worth mentioning that Zen's transition was not smooth, they a significant problem at launch getting Zen 2 to "import" tables people had purchased for Zen 1. So while I would love a new version, it'll take more than wishing for it to make it possible.All that being said, I'll vote in the poll because if it does help get some ideas ticking at FarSight, so much the better. And after all, as you've done well to notice and make the most of, it was Bobby's suggestion in the first place, whether or not he meant it seriously. : D~~~~~~~~~~~(I was reminded that the first two packs were unlocks because when I found this thread I was waiting for the game to download and install its 277 or whatever MB patch from version 1, because I'd deleted the game and redownloaded and reinstalled everything just on the off chance they'd snuck some updated versions of the DLC tables into the store without shaming Sony by admitting it. ... Doesn't look like like they have. : P)~~~~~~~~~PPS: Although given that those first two packs are unlocks, and since they have a title update to go along with each new table pack or two anyway, it does make me wonder if they really couldn't figure out a way, in the existing game, to have future game title updates have the new tables in them, and then the DLC is, once again, just unlock keys. After all, Bobby says in the interviewso does that mean they *could* put the table resources for any *new* table packs into the patch, and have the DLC for the new packs just be unlock keys like before? Hm well at any rate I'll have to try to get that in as a question for the next interview if no answer comes along before then.</blockquote>

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