I'm a cynic

[Ostaf]

Is the whole eqemu/eqlive update race not doomed to failure? Someone tell me if my logic is flawed here. EQLive updates, smart players don't download the patch, EQEmu eventually follows suit, smart players must therefore now download the patch in order to play on the newly updated EQEmu servers, at which time EQLive may or may not have released ANOTHER update which could potentially wreck upon the EQEmu and all work that was just done. Don't get me wrong, I think you guys are doing a good, and very cool thing here. Anywho, I just installed EQ, so I guess I'm SOL until 2007 (hehe, 2007. Dat be funny)

Now that I think about it, though, how poorly must EQ have been written if the server has to change everytime an update is released. Please, someone explain that to me. I've been writting professional business software for about 4 years now, and never had such an issue.