Letter from the Producer, XIX (09/27/2011)

We were gonna have a list of previously done guildleves on our leve menu in 1.19.

So basically the whole battle reform has to wait for 1.19a now :/

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

We were gonna have a list of previously done guildleves on our leve menu in 1.19.

So basically the whole battle reform has to wait for 1.19a now :/

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how do you know that? what am i missing lol?

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

We were gonna have a list of previously done guildleves on our leve menu in 1.19.

So basically the whole battle reform has to wait for 1.19a now :/

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Eh? Why is that? I just see the guildleve history and one stronghold being held back.

Usually I like to be skeptical yet a little hopeful.... but in this case....

I think this is an adequate summation of my feelings right now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTzJ...eature=related

There is No battle reform without guildleve history.

You can't sell coca cola without a bottle now either can you? its the same thing

(I was being sarcastic)

Hmm... Very Interesting Video.. :D

Still hoping something happens at the end or we defeat and not kill Ifrit..
Always hated the Killing a boss over and over thing...

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

There is No battle reform without guildleve history.

You can't sell coca cola without a bottle now either can you? its the same thing

(I was being sarcastic)

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While you cannot sell cola without a bottle, you can sell it in a bottle without labeling.

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Originally Posted by Zetonegi

While you cannot sell cola without a bottle, you can sell it in a bottle without labeling.

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Or in a can.

Just sayin'... :p

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Or in a can.

Just sayin'... :p

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Or a glass

Enough with the stupid semantics, you're messing with the point of the metaphor.

Pleasing letter is pleasing

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Or a glass

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Or a bag.

/10

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Originally Posted by Ava

Or a bag.

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Or a block of swiss cheese

You have to give them just a little bit of credit for doing such a great job predicting aprox date 2 months in advance for when a patch will release. A few days off is not bad at all. It's not like a video game that's ready months in advance, and they push it out on a specific date.

Video looks awesome, and I can't wait for more battle changes. :D

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Originally Posted by RedAffinity

You have to give them just a little bit of credit for doing such a great job predicting aprox date 2 months in advance for when a patch will release. A few days off is not bad at all. It's not like a video game that's ready months in advance, and they push it out on a specific date.

Video looks awesome, and I can't wait for more battle changes. :D

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It was more like a month in advance, aaand they have been doing this for 8 years! Yoshida is the only one failing at predicting the dates so far.

It's not particularly common for SE to delay patches after they have been announced.

I don't know if this has been talked about yet but..Guildleve history evaluations delay. Does this mean that we won't be able to do all of our saved leves one after another? Are we going to have to wait for each 12 hour reset now? Or does it just mean that we won't be able to get ONE giant leve after the eval? Again, don't kill me if this was beaten to death.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

It was more like a month in advance, aaand they have been doing this for 8 years! Yoshida is the only one failing at predicting the dates so far.

It's not particularly common for SE to delay patches after they have been announced.

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Look at it in terms of birthing a baby. It's said to take 9 months, but it's rarely ever exactly nine months, sometimes it's a few days or weeks early, sometimes late. Better this patch be a healthy bouncing baby than stump it's growth.

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Originally Posted by Bigcatman

I don't know if this has been talked about yet but..Guildleve history evaluations delay. Does this mean that we won't be able to do all of our saved leves one after another? Are we going to have to wait for each 12 hour reset now? Or does it just mean that we won't be able to get ONE giant leve after the eval? Again, don't kill me if this was beaten to death.

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i aksed this also and got no answer.

whats does it mean? can someone answer?

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Originally Posted by Pulseczar

A delay by a few days is no big deal—esp after that Ifrit video. I almost creamed myself.

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Almost?! I went through 5 pairs of underwear! ; ;

WHOAH TMI .

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Originally Posted by DNO

i aksed this also and got no answer.

whats does it mean? can someone answer?

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Originally Posted by Triairy

Levequest History and Evaluation

Upon completing a levequest and collecting the rewards, the leve will be moved from the player’s Journal to Levequest History, which displays the details of the eight most recently completed leves. Requesting an evaluation at the Adventurers’ Guild with at least one levequest in the history will earn you a new leve, the nature of which varies based on your levequest history. At this point in time your history will be cleared.
* Leves issued via the evaluation count towards the player’s allowance.

In patch 1.19, the combination of levequests in the history will determine the bonuses granted upon completing a levequest issued via evaluation. However, the evaluation system will be expanded in the future.

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Essentially the whole ticket system will be in place, but the tab that lets you see the last 8 leves you completed won't be until 1.19a

Did anyone bother to pay attention to the HP and MP values for the different classes in the party killing Ifrit?

With attribute allocation becoming static, and this video being from a 1.19 game, I figured more people would be curious.

Pay attention to the massive HP buff GLAs and I think ARCs too got. ARC and especially MRD also seem to have even more drastically buffed MP.

Pugilist appears more or less the same though. Red-headed step child status continues...

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Originally Posted by NoctisUmbra

Essentially the whole ticket system will be in place, but the tab that lets you see the last 8 leves you completed won't be until 1.19a

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ahhh cool thanks i was confused. as long as the ticket system i in 1.19 i am ok with this delay.

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Look at it in terms of birthing a baby. It's said to take 9 months, but it's rarely ever exactly nine months, sometimes it's a few days or weeks early, sometimes late. Better this patch be a healthy bouncing baby than stump it's growth.

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I'm not complaining, I'll take few days over longer than a month.

Just saying that giving them any credit for being close to the mark is pretty silly. They haven't been off the mark up until 2011.

I guess I may be the only one that feels this way, and at the risk of being flamed by most of you on here for saying this, even though its only a few days, I am seriously irritated by the delay. Hear me out: I am not upset that the delay is keeping me from getting the patch sooner. I have waited since release for them to fix this game while playing, and having to wait a few days more from when they said they would release it isn't the end of the world to me. What bothers me the most about the delay is twofold. First, its irritating to me that a team that is supposedly working day and night to fix a game that must be costing them money to keep up can't seem to meet even basic deadlines they set for themselves consistantly (as this certainly isn't the first time there has been delays). Second, I would think that getting something that changes the game as much as they say this patch will out in time for the one year anniversary would be a priority. I mean, what better way to show the players and the people on the sidelines waiting for the game to get better your serious about resurrecting this title then to have a major change hit it a year after it tanked?

Like I said, its not the end of the world that I have to wait, it just bothers me that many of the players seem to be more interested in turning this title around then the developers do. And quiet frankly, given how long this whole 1.19 process has taken, I can't possibly see how they will put out another large patch like this by the end of this year. Its embarrassing.

Hmmm, Patch Notes on 30th for us to pour over and patch on 4th? I predict more delays after the rage threads start.

You forgot carton.

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Originally Posted by Biggs

I guess I may be the only one that feels this way, and at the risk of being flamed by most of you on here for saying this, even though its only a few days, I am seriously irritated by the delay. Hear me out: I am not upset that the delay is keeping me from getting the patch sooner. I have waited since release for them to fix this game while playing, and having to wait a few days more from when they said they would release it isn't the end of the world to me. What bothers me the most about the delay is twofold. First, its irritating to me that a team that is supposedly working day and night to fix a game that must be costing them money to keep up can't seem to meet even basic deadlines they set for themselves consistantly (as this certainly isn't the first time there has been delays). Second, I would think that getting something that changes the game as much as they say this patch will out in time for the one year anniversary would be a priority. I mean, what better way to show the players and the people on the sidelines waiting for the game to get better your serious about resurrecting this title then to have a major change hit it a year after it tanked?

Like I said, its not the end of the world that I have to wait, it just bothers me that many of the players seem to be more interested in turning this title around then the developers do. And quiet frankly, given how long this whole 1.19 process has taken, I can't possibly see how they will put out another large patch like this by the end of this year. Its embarrassing.

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The game is not in this state because it was delayed, it is in this state because it was released too soon, if they rush patches out to meet deadlines it will fail end of story, but if patches are delayed, and the devs take time over them it can succeed, its feedback like yours that made the game what it is (well its because the devs didnt listen in the alpha and beta) but overall it is because it was released too soon. If they start rushing patches out to meet deadlines it WILL kill the game.

If you know anything about software development you know that there can be unforseen problems and if these are not taken into account you will see the release of the game all over again ie, instant fail.

I said to a friend on the first day of the alpha test "this game will not be released ontime" while I was wrong in a way I was right because it should have been delayed, but Tanaka chose not to delay the release because it would look bad, you really want them to make that mistake again?

Delays mean they have found problems they did not initially expect and are fixing them rather than leaving them like the recent FFXI cure bug that made cures do 99,999 to all undead mobs, this was fixed fast but its the sort of bug FFXIV does not need.

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Originally Posted by Biggs

I guess I may be the only one that feels this way, and at the risk of being flamed by most of you on here for saying this, even though its only a few days, I am seriously irritated by the delay. Hear me out: I am not upset that the delay is keeping me from getting the patch sooner. I have waited since release for them to fix this game while playing, and having to wait a few days more from when they said they would release it isn't the end of the world to me. What bothers me the most about the delay is twofold. First, its irritating to me that a team that is supposedly working day and night to fix a game that must be costing them money to keep up can't seem to meet even basic deadlines they set for themselves consistantly (as this certainly isn't the first time there has been delays). Second, I would think that getting something that changes the game as much as they say this patch will out in time for the one year anniversary would be a priority. I mean, what better way to show the players and the people on the sidelines waiting for the game to get better your serious about resurrecting this title then to have a major change hit it a year after it tanked?

Like I said, its not the end of the world that I have to wait, it just bothers me that many of the players seem to be more interested in turning this title around then the developers do. And quiet frankly, given how long this whole 1.19 process has taken, I can't possibly see how they will put out another large patch like this by the end of this year. Its embarrassing.

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all i see is blah blah blah delay.

its 4 days and 2 of them are the weekend. bitching about a 2 workday delay is embarrassing.

only 2 work days delayed is not bad at all! i really did know better not to get my hopes up for friday but couldnt help myself so when i heard there was a delay i was relieved to see it was only a couple of days for quality assurance. that speaks volumes to me.
1.19a shouldnt be too long away from 1.19, like two weeks maybe? i think thats how 1.18a was anyway.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Delays mean they have found problems they did not initially expect and are fixing them rather than leaving them like the recent FFXI cure bug that made cures do 99,999 to all undead mobs, this was fixed fast but its the sort of bug FFXIV does not need.

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The Relic Knuckles fiasco is a better example of something that could have been avoided with better testing and a delayed patch. If you don't know what the relic knuckles fiasco was, a long time ago in FFXI you got full TP for each hit of a multi-hit WS. On a 75 MNK, Relic Knuckles were at least a 34 damage weapon(@276 h2h) with a 1299 delay, Spharai are a 56 dmg weapon(@276 h2h). 1299 delay is enough to get over 20TP a hit. Asuran Fists is an 8hit WS. Do the math.

Ifrit video -- I think we've finally found our way back to Final Fantasy.

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Originally Posted by Biggs

The fact that its almost been a lifetime and my brain still doesn't seem to be anywhere close to being in a state thats useable only fails like my initial post.

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Fixed it for you?! No offense, just saying..

You guys need to stop bitching that the Game is behind. Everyone here knows that. That is the reason why the game is F2P, That is the reason why we are getting one big patch after another. They are actually fixing the game.. they wont charge until the game is what they want it to be. It doesnt really matter what happend at the Release.. it does matter that they are working their asses off to get it fixed as fast as possible, but also without rushing it to much.

So some of you really needs to stop acting like a 5 years old kid.

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Originally Posted by Nero

Fixed it for you?! No offense, just saying..

You guys need to stop bitching that the Game is behind. Everyone here knows that. That is the reason why the game is F2P, That is the reason why we are getting one big patch after another. They are actually fixing the game.. they wont charge until the game is what they want it to be. It doesnt really matter what happend at the Release.. it does matter that they are working their asses off to get it fixed as fast as possible, but also without rushing it to much.

So some of you really needs to stop acting like a 5 years old kid.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHbYLjWEEQA

This is a song for you. *applause*

You guys have been playing FFXIV to long your expectations are really low now. That video was ok at best. If you think this fight or even this fight and 5 more similar are going to make this game a hit and purchase worthy for PS3 I think you will be sadly mistaken.

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

You guys have been playing FFXIV to long your expectations are really low now. That video was ok at best. If you think this fight or even this fight and 5 more similar are going to make this game a hit and purchase worthy for PS3 I think you will be sadly mistaken.

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We're praising the video for bringing an awesome fight and more Final Fantasy into the game, not for it reshaping the game into a completed MMO... duuuuh

i'll be happy when they say "were finally done with FFXIV !!!" maybe sept 2012 or 2013 lol

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Originally Posted by Biggs

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You have a point, but there wasn't really a concrete deadline for the patch.

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Originally Posted by Letter XVIII

...right now the team is looking at a September 30 release. Certain contents are a bit iffy to make to the deadline, and because of this, there’s a chance that the date will get pushed back a few days.

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September 30th was just an approximate date. He even said that it might be delayed a few days (and it WAS only delayed a few days), so technically his estimated release was still dead on.

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Originally Posted by Kowen

You have a point, but there wasn't really a concrete deadline for the patch.



September 30th was just an approximate date. He even said that it might be delayed a few days (and it WAS only delayed a few days), so technically his estimated release was still dead on.

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I wasn't irked so much by him giving an aproximate date as I was by the fact that they couldn't get a good sized, comeplaythisgamecauseitsawsomenow style patch in before the year mark. It just seemed like something that would have set a good example to show the troops hanging in there that the team put in charge is getting it done. Nothing we can do now but wait to see the fruits of their labor come friday when they hand out patch notes.

I really hope they can get the action memory system done by the patch release.