Potatoe_survivor
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I don't think anyone here actually understands the certification process because I see A LOT of speculation and anger regarding DLC disparity. I'll give you the in-depth version and if anyone has more specific questions feel free to ask.
Console certification depends on a myriad of factors from the volume of submissions by all devs to the certification department, to time of submission. The average time from submission to DLC drop is 5-7 days for MS, and up to 2 weeks for Sony.
The curtain call DLC was tested in house before being pushed to the PTB, then from the PTB everything was reworked, and finally pushed to PC June 12th. After that the proposed update (or in this case DLC AND update) is readied and sent to the different cert departments where it is independently tested by them for stability, bugs, issues etc. Each company has their own process but behavior has to wait on BOTH to be certified before they can release either for obvious reasons but most obvious is so they can avoid another howling grounds disaster where rushing the update literally broke the game on all platforms and required months of fixing.
So what likely happened is:
-In house testing (may-june)
-Ptb (june 1-11)
-Rework (during ptb)
-Push to PC June 12th
-Update sent to MS/Sony june 13/14
Again average turnaround is up to 2 weeks with Sony so the earliest you could expect it on either console is June 28th but since they have a double blood point event planned early July I wouldn't expect curtain call before July 2nd.
The only thing that really irks me is I know for a fact Sony stays in constant communication with any developer who issues a update for certification. They update the dev throughout the entire process from bugs found, to likely testing completion date and behavior COULD share that information with us if they wanted so we would feel less like an afterthought and more like a part of the community but since DBD started as a PC game and they only made console versions for the money they clearly don't think of us as that important.
I dont know the numbers, only they do, but I'm fairly confident more people play on pc than ps4/xb1 combined so we will forever be an afterthought.
Anyways that's why we're forced to wait and when we can expect the update roughly.