Level cap increase\Update: Is it ever going to actually happen?

[ShadowHeart]

how hard is it to just say scheduled update is to be released mid September ( for example) instead of messing with people this game always had a horrible horrible disclosure policy ....

[Cursed]

how hard is it to just say scheduled update is to be released mid September ( for example) instead of messing with people this game always had a horrible horrible disclosure policy ....

Very hard if your project planners grew up playing FFXI.

[Alhanelem]

how hard is it to just say scheduled update is to be released mid September ( for example) instead of messing with people this game always had a horrible horrible disclosure policy ....

They said "mid fall." How hard is that to understand?

When you're in a business like this and you give exact dates or very close approximations, hell will get raised against you if you miss that date. They are vague because they don't want to set people up for disappointement and then have to deal with the subsequent onslaught of complaints and whining.

[ShadowHeart]

mid fall is mid October to most .... and they have given projected estimated times many times before and any mmorpg they will whine and complain but its a company that is synonymous with lack of disclosure as most will say is used to peak our interest but really if people wanted this intrigue and mystery they wouldn't be data mining heck out of it on release night / day and establishing wiki sights so that others can reference to on a massive scale the time of mystery and excitement is gone people just want to know info not be siting with their thumb up their @$$ playing guessing games all the time, well maybe some people do but majority of us don't

[Alhanelem]

Uh, SE is not synonymous with lack of disclosure. I find it riduclulous when SE gives people a month or more of notice about something and then people come on the forums and post "thanks for telling us at the last minute!"

Seriously? a MONTH or more is not enough notice? When they announced the account transfer, there was over a month before the transfer was enabled and another month before it was originally going to become mandatory. Since people had so many problems with it, they're extending it further. But it's ridiculous to suggest people weren't notified with a reasonable timeframe.

[ShadowHeart]

well your broaching another topic now everyone was forced to change not an option like most companies would have had initiated obvious some trolls havent been playing for 5,6,7 years like some of us and just look for reasons to derail and troll

[Korpg]

Ty korpg.


Also, I think I was wrong about the monday sneak update.

Considering that it is tuesday and still no update, I think you are wrong also lol

[ShadowHeart]

i found this today when reading about the announcement for the transfer extension bonus gift no specific date though


Distribution

The bonus item will be distributed in a version update scheduled for September or later.

* Further information to be provided as it becomes available.
* Schedule and other details subject to change.

[Horadrim]

Proven false by the delay of the account transfer deadline and addressing of people's payment complaints.

Making a decision based on the update notes without actually experiencing any of it is rather short-sighted, don't you think? Not every nitty-gritty little detail is covered by the update notes, either. Take the new THF ability for instance. First, everyone took it for what it said and thought it meant "Intimidates the target once" and assumed it was total garbage. Then we eventually learned that it's better than that (By how much, you can be the judge)

That was sort of my point -- I'd like to actually see/experience what the update changes before I make a decision -- which would involve getting he update before I have to make my next payment. Since it was supposed to be this month I have less and less time to make a decision if the update still comes out before September -- which it doesn't look like it is.

I don't particularly mind if they are still working on things, I just feel like most of what they announced is probably already done and I'm hoping (less fist shaking, more, meh oh well) they have some more things to surprise us with if we have to wait until mid/late September.

[blowfin]

No, what Leon is saying is that the effects of the tsunami wasn't known when they released that road map. They are still having power shortages in Japan, abet in a smaller effect now.

Yeah, they released it afterwards, but think about it, do you think they planned everything in that road map in a week after they released that road map when we started playing again?

Erm, lionheart is saying they DID take the effects of the tsumani into account, I'm saying they didn't. I'm not sure what the hell you're saying.

Pretty hard to imagine them revising a year long plan within a week or whatever with all the other things that would have been going on at the time. Also pretty hard for them to predict how bad the situation would have become.

We're about a month off the schedule prescribed by that (now very old) roadmap. We were a month off schedule for the "June" update. I can't see them simple having an entire month of development time go down the drain for any reason but the effects of the tsunami really.

In short, no. I find it entirely unlikely that they somehow magically forecast a month of server shutdowns (including the test server probably) and rolling power outages probably resulting in the closure of their offices.