I’m pretty sure we’ve had exactly this happen in the past and the event was rescheduled and the patch did not drop. I can’t recall exactly what it was.
Last patch players were yelling and screaming that the update was “late” for at least a week before it arrived when the devs hadn’t committed a date at all. There are better things in Gems to get whipped up about, let’s not create an artificial source of bad feelings.
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They’re shipping with the bug, that does not seem to imply the patch is 99% “this week”. It implies the opposite! It’s just a cosmetic bug, so it’s not something that’s going to force them to update to fix. So there’s no rescheduling and I feel like Salty just confirmed “next week” is the earliest we could see the patch.
But I’m also pointing above: the devs have not promised a date, and last patch they made a lot of the familiar “this week” moves about 2 weeks before the patch happened. I don’t know why that is but keep in mind if they haven’t said a date, they haven’t said a date. Don’t attribute promises they haven’t made.
If people are going to feel bad about the game, I want it to be about actual things.