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Fez creator Phil Fish has confirmed Polytron is going to issue a new patch for Fez on XBLA.
“Good news everyone: We’re going to patch FEZ on XBLA!” Fish revealed today via Twitter.
There’s no timeline on the patch; Fish followed up his post by qualifying, “It's going to take a few months, though. But we're doing it!”
The news comes on the back of recent reports that Microsoft has stopped charging developers for such updates.
In July 2012 Fez developer Polytron re-issued a patch which, upon its initial release, resulted in corrupted save files for a very small percentage of players because a new patch would cost the independent studio "a ton of money."
“We’re not going to patch the patch,” read a post on Polytron's website. “Why not? Because Microsoft would charge us tens of thousands of dollars to re-certify the game.”
As a small, independent developer Polytron could not justify the huge expense.
“We already owe Microsoft a LOT of money for the privilege of being on their platform,” continued the statement.
Asked recently what platforms Fez 2 was headed to, Fish replied, “not Xbox.” This is due to Microsoft's current refusal to allow indie developers to self-publish on Xbox Live and is unrelated to the former price of patches.
