What’s up with Throne & Liberty’s Updates?
Why do they take so long? Why can’t AGS keep to their own timeframes?
1. MMOs Are a Mess of Moving Parts
These games are wild complicated—every patch has to tweak a bunch of different systems without breaking the whole thing. They’re messing with balance, fixing bugs, adding new stuff, and hoping it all plays nice together. But let’s be real, it usually doesn’t, and that’s where the extra downtime kicks in.
2. AGS Keeps Setting Itself Up to Fail
Every single time, they give us a maintenance window that’s way too optimistic. Either they’re bad at estimating or they just don’t want to tell us upfront how long it actually takes. Either way, they keep overpromising and under-delivering, and at this point, nobody’s surprised.
3. Something Always Breaks Last Minute
Even if they think everything’s good to go, there’s always something that goes sideways when the patch goes live. A bug, a server issue, some random exploit they didn’t catch—whatever it is, it throws the whole schedule off.
4. They Just Ain’t Efficient With This Stuff
Other companies manage to do this smoother, so what’s AGS’s excuse? Either their workflow is a mess, their team isn’t experienced enough, or they just don’t have the right setup to get these patches out on time. Whatever the case, it’s clear they haven’t figured it out.
5. Just Be Honest With the Timelines
At this point, everyone knows the maintenance is gonna run long. So why not just say that from the start instead of pretending like they’ll finish in four hours when it’s always six or more? People would be way less annoyed if they just gave a realistic timeframe instead of setting us up for disappointment every single time.
