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| Beta Test: Patch 5, The Black Emporium |
Around the 13th of February, 2015, BioWare announced, Patch 5 Beta Program for Dragon Age: Inquisition. What this program supposedly entails is for a ‘select’ group of players—PC players—to test the patch before it is released. The mentality of this is to eliminate or reduce what patching a game usually creates. Sometime another patch must be dispatched to patch-up the previous one.
This news is posted on their BLOG as well as in the media and on their BioWare Forums: ‘A closed’ thread where the same article is pasted. This move to post information on the BioWare forums is recent, however, since the Developers (Devs) for Dragon Age, have vacated the forums where they were a vocal force to reckon with. Don’t get me wrong. I did enjoy having the Devs there. I used to write on the wall of then Lead Developer (Now Creative Director) Mike Laidlaw, leaving an occasional poem there along with kudos. I often commented on John Epler’s (Lead Cinematic Designer) and other Devs’ pages and status messages. The Developers were so down to earth—very approachable and open to our feedback. The Lead writer, David Gaider, would at times respond to a forum comment of mine, prior to Dragon Age II’s released.
