Patch date

So it's been two weeks since the 6/14 letter that estimated it would take about two weeks to finish 1.18. When's the release date? Whether it's delayed again or set for sometime next week, I'd like to know.

They said 2 weeks from the release date I think (which was mid to late june). We didn't know the June release date so its hard to predict the July release date. Pretty craft lol. I'm not expecting it for about 2 weeks tbh...

Well you have to remember the Japanese are very considerate people and know we have July 4th just 2 days away. I would expect to see it this week between the 5th-8th. Also they have some type of festivities going on about this time if I am not mistaken.

13th July :cool:

Don't they usually patch on mondays? My guess is July 11 or 18.

A simple date would be nice. Even if it is far away.

7/11 (optimistic)
7/18 (realistic)
7/25 (pessimistic)

Maybe it got pushed because in correspondence towards the 7th umbra era? but they also said the the month of July does not= Umbra era... but.. what if they are hiding it and not telling us, and they delayed it for that reason?....

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Maybe it got pushed because in correspondence towards the 7th umbra era? but they also said the the month of July does not= Umbra era... but.. what if they are hiding it and not telling us, and they delayed it for that reason?....

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They said there's no significance to the numbers in the poem and real-life dates. It was in a dev post somewhere on here.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

7/11 (optimistic)
7/18 (realistic)
7/25/12 (pessimistic)

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Fix't ^_^



/10charismas

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Originally Posted by LateReg

They said there's no significance to the numbers in the poem and real-life dates. It was in a dev post somewhere on here.

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I know I said that in my post

7/10! coz I want to get it before my school starts ; ;

Who cares this game still needs about 5-6 more patches anyways....

7/7/11 <----im calling it

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Originally Posted by GabbaGabba

7/7/11 <----im calling it

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Thank you. Come Again! :D

He said 2 weeks more than they had originally planned, which was mid-June at the earliest.

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Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX

He said 2 weeks more than they had originally planned, which was mid-June at the earliest.

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Despite sharing your feelings of "why won't this damn patch just come out?!?!?!?! *rage*", I've come to terms that the game will only be a single iota better of what it is now. Two dungeons with a 1 hour time limit which = 2 hour of content and auto attack.....that's it folks you can go back to your lives now and wait for 1.19.

Perhaps I'm just being pessimistic but, hell, at this point it's hard to feel a landslide victory from patch 1.18. Yoshi stated anywho that its the FIRST step in the battle reform. Just getting the ball rolling is all =/.

My guess on release date of patch 7/20 because it's my birthday =P.

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Oh btw I'm thinking (serious answer) it won't be for about at least a week till the patch is up because if they haven't given an official date by now (July 2nd) then what hope would we have for it being released on monday like some people say =O?

YoshiP posted a few days ago that they are in the testing stage of the patch. Meaning unless some serious bug is found it should be out within the next week or so.

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Originally Posted by Ark_mage2

YoshiP posted a few days ago that they are in the testing stage of the patch. Meaning unless some serious bug is found it should be out within the next week or so.

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There ya go! optimists rejoice =D!

iirc, this patch also introduces the grand company content, right? so, hopefully, it gives us way more than just some dungeons.

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Originally Posted by Spitfire

Trollololol I try too hard

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You DO try too hard!

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Originally Posted by Ventus

Despite sharing your feelings of "why won't this damn patch just come out?!?!?!?! *rage*", I've come to terms that the game will only be a single iota better of what it is now. Two dungeons with a 1 hour time limit which = 2 hour of content and auto attack.....that's it folks you can go back to your lives now and wait for 1.19.

Perhaps I'm just being pessimistic but, hell, at this point it's hard to feel a landslide victory from patch 1.18. Yoshi stated anywho that its the FIRST step in the battle reform. Just getting the ball rolling is all =/.

My guess on release date of patch 7/20 because it's my birthday =P.

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Oh btw I'm thinking (serious answer) it won't be for about at least a week till the patch is up because if they haven't given an official date by now (July 2nd) then what hope would we have for it being released on monday like some people say =O?

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I was correcting the OP who thought it meant 2 weeks from the letter, not venting frustration :(

Boldface is just mizundastood

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Originally Posted by Mug

Don't they usually patch on mondays? My guess is July 11 or 18.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 1.17 Released (Apr. 14) Thursday
FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 1.16 Released (Mar. 3) Thursday

The last two rolled out on a Thursday, and I predict the same will happen for 1.18.

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Originally Posted by Ventus

Despite sharing your feelings of "why won't this damn patch just come out?!?!?!?! *rage*", I've come to terms that the game will only be a single iota better of what it is now. Two dungeons with a 1 hour time limit which = 2 hour of content and auto attack.....that's it folks you can go back to your lives now and wait for 1.19.

Perhaps I'm just being pessimistic but, hell, at this point it's hard to feel a landslide victory from patch 1.18. Yoshi stated anywho that its the FIRST step in the battle reform. Just getting the ball rolling is all =/.

My guess on release date of patch 7/20 because it's my birthday =P.

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Oh btw I'm thinking (serious answer) it won't be for about at least a week till the patch is up because if they haven't given an official date by now (July 2nd) then what hope would we have for it being released on monday like some people say =O?

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Yep this is the sad truth... nothing rly to write home about... and the fact that they won't even have party seek up in time for dungeons is inexcusable... 1.19 so far isn't sounding like much just tweaks to everything... 1.20 seems to be THEE patch... even if this patch is the biggest and easily looks that way... the amount of time its taking for these simple meager normal mmo changes is laughable... by the time the games up to snuff if they keep taking this long we'll have GW2, SWTOR and perhaps even a new warcraft xpac... good luck competing with those o.O ... of course the codes prob set up so retarded that it takes forever to implement such simple changes I honestly don't know if I should blame them 8/

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Originally Posted by Misha

Yep this is the sad truth... nothing rly to write home about... and the fact that they won't even have party seek up in time for dungeons is inexcusable... 1.19 so far isn't sounding like much just tweaks to everything... 1.20 seems to be THEE patch... even if this patch is the biggest and easily looks that way... the amount of time its taking for these simple meager normal mmo changes is laughable... by the time the games up to snuff if they keep taking this long we'll have GW2, SWTOR and perhaps even a new warcraft xpac... good luck competing with those o.O ... of course the codes prob set up so retarded that it takes forever to implement such simple changes I honestly don't know if I should blame them 8/

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Yeah it does seem daunting, but at this point don't you think most people left playing are pretty much the hardcore FF fans? I mean not unanimously of course, but a strong majority I feel are the people sticking in there no matter what.

Addressing how you said these small changes are taking forever: my guess is (and I'm not trying to sound like sarcastic or something) they are still recovering from tsunami and, let's be honest, this project probably has pretty low funding. SE is still making other games and FF14 is probably their adopted child they regretfully acknowledge but neglect constantly =/.

SWTOR and GW2.....two titans of games wouldn't you say? Hopefully 1.19 has a shorter gap in between 1.18 =(.

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Originally Posted by Ventus

Yeah it does seem daunting, but at this point don't you think most people left playing are pretty much the hardcore FF fans? I mean not unanimously of course, but a strong majority I feel are the people sticking in there no matter what.

Addressing how you said these small changes are taking forever: my guess is (and I'm not trying to sound like sarcastic or something) they are still recovering from tsunami and, let's be honest, this project probably has pretty low funding. SE is still making other games and FF14 is probably their adopted child they regretfully acknowledge but neglect constantly =/.

SWTOR and GW2.....two titans of games wouldn't you say? Hopefully 1.19 has a shorter gap in between 1.18 =(.

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Ya all true but the majority of FF fans left a long time ago, 13 and 14 created a sour taste in their mouths. In the long run if the game stays alive which I'm sure it will, it will eventually get to the point of being a full fledged mmo with alot of great things to appreciate... problem is it may be a long time or even too late :S... 1.19 should be shorter, think materia system was only new item then it was just auto attack tweaks and hate/agro management plus a few other small things.

As long as nothings pushed back in 1.18 I'll personally log on(Logged on with 3 months off recently and played a quick behest, honestly love the game still and its potential , just sucks there's nothing to do atm or nothing to work towards >< ), but as some people have said... quest hubs... haven't heard anything in awhile about em >.< Gonna suck too if they're released with nothin rly in em cept... fancy looks lol And hearing jobs won't be out till 1.20 or later is dissapointing... so many great games coming out in fall/winter and early next year, hard to be excited that much anymore 8/

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Well you have to remember the Japanese are very considerate people and know we have July 4th just 2 days away. I would expect to see it this week between the 5th-8th. Also they have some type of festivities going on about this time if I am not mistaken.

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Hmm? I don't know if you remember but this games first big patch came out on Thanksgiving day. So I dont think the 4th would stop them from releasing. Of course Im not saying I think they will seeing as my calendar just rolled over to the 4th 25 minutes ago.

I'll assume it will be on a thursday if anything. Gives them ample time to announce on monday after the weekend.

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Originally Posted by Misha

Yep this is the sad truth... nothing rly to write home about... and the fact that they won't even have party seek up in time for dungeons is inexcusable... 1.19 so far isn't sounding like much just tweaks to everything... 1.20 seems to be THEE patch... even if this patch is the biggest and easily looks that way... the amount of time its taking for these simple meager normal mmo changes is laughable... by the time the games up to snuff if they keep taking this long we'll have GW2, SWTOR and perhaps even a new warcraft xpac... good luck competing with those o.O ... of course the codes prob set up so retarded that it takes forever to implement such simple changes I honestly don't know if I should blame them 8/

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for those that haven't played ffxi - many of the dungeons/battlegrounds have 60minute timers. The time can be extended by getting rare drops from certain bosses inside, enabling you to stay 2hours or more. Dont necessarily think that you gonna have 2 raids of "60 minutes then its all content done". Thats not how it works in ffxi and may be the same for ffxiv.

You have multiple paths, multiple NM's to spawn inside, depending on the route you take. you may need to take one route on the first night, to pop an nm, then take a different route to pop another NM the next night, maybe using an item that dropped from the first NM to pop a different one.
Just my 2 cents !

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Well you have to remember the Japanese are very considerate people and know we have July 4th just 2 days away. I would expect to see it this week between the 5th-8th. Also they have some type of festivities going on about this time if I am not mistaken.

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Just because its 4th of July it doesnt meant the other 6.1 billion are doing what the americans are doing on that day.

Just because its 4th of July in your country why wouldnt SE release it? They are a japanese company with customers from all continents !

Heck if they delayed releasing stuff because of public holidays then patches would never go out - its always a public holiday in some country or other.

Yes...theres an OUTSIDE of America. *gasp*

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Originally Posted by Spellstar

Just because its 4th of July it doesnt meant the other 6.1 billion are doing what the americans are doing on that day.

Just because its 4th of July in your country why wouldnt SE release it? They are a japanese company with customers from all continents !

Heck if they delayed releasing stuff because of public holidays then patches would never go out - its always a public holiday in some country or other.

Yes...theres an OUTSIDE of America. *gasp*

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patch isn't today so calm down champ.

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Originally Posted by Ylferyf

So it's been two weeks since the 6/14 letter that estimated it would take about two weeks to finish 1.18. When's the release date? Whether it's delayed again or set for sometime next week, I'd like to know.

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I expect well see the patch in the next 2-3 days Probably Wednesday

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Originally Posted by Spellstar

Just because its 4th of July it doesnt meant the other 6.1 billion are doing what the americans are doing on that day.

Just because its 4th of July in your country why wouldnt SE release it? They are a japanese company with customers from all continents !

Heck if they delayed releasing stuff because of public holidays then patches would never go out - its always a public holiday in some country or other.

Yes...theres an OUTSIDE of America. *gasp*

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SE has never released a patch in FFXI on either an American or Japanease holiday day. They have, however, released on the same week as a holiday. If you remember correctly they delayed a patch that was scheduled on Memorial day to the day after.

Just for the record, 1.18 is more than just core of the auto-Attack and battle reform and the 2 dungeons.

There will be the grand companies, the quests hubs, the beast tribes settlement, Guild Leve reforms, new quests added. And I am probably missing some stuff.

Maybe not as big as most anticipated but still more than some people make it out to be. And more to come with 1.19 and 1.20 shortly after. 1.18 they said took longer because of the core reforms they had to do but things will come out faster after.

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Originally Posted by Perrin_Aybarra

There will be the grand companies, the quests hubs, the beast tribes settlement, Guild Leve reforms, new quests added. And I am probably missing some stuff.

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I think a lot of us are expecting things like quests hubs and beast tribe settlements to be delayed since it's been a while since they talked about them. The only thing they confirmed recently was that there will be some Grand Companies storyline stuff.

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Originally Posted by Perrin_Aybarra

Just for the record, 1.18 is more than just core of the auto-Attack and battle reform and the 2 dungeons.

There will be the grand companies, the quests hubs, the beast tribes settlement, Guild Leve reforms, new quests added. And I am probably missing some stuff.

Maybe not as big as most anticipated but still more than some people make it out to be. And more to come with 1.19 and 1.20 shortly after. 1.18 they said took longer because of the core reforms they had to do but things will come out faster after.

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Beast tribes stated to come out AFTER quest hubs actually. Believe it was the article for quest hubs way back that said that^^ Might of said was for 1.19 too... and ya 1.18 def will be longest wait otherwise they won't even come close to finishing everything they wanted by end of summer xD We'd be lucky to get in 1 more patch, so let's hope it's way shorter for 1.19 like it should be^^

You're all crazy!

Patch 1.18 is the mythical golden patch of legend that will be our saviour of Eorzea, bringing everything that every player could have ever wanted!!! Enjoy and revel before this bounty!!































lol

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Originally Posted by Zdenka

SE has never released a patch in FFXI on either an American or Japanease holiday day. They have, however, released on the same week as a holiday. If you remember correctly they delayed a patch that was scheduled on Memorial day to the day after.

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WOTG was released in 2007, the 20th of November in North America and the 22nd of November in Japan and Europe. The Patch for the expansion pack went live on Thanksgiving day in the United States. Many many many PC users didnt get the disc till Saturday of that week.

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Originally Posted by Misha

Beast tribes stated to come out AFTER quest hubs actually. Believe it was the article for quest hubs way back that said that^^

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Yeah, I just checked and he said they probably had to delay it to 1.19 in the Letter from the Producer IX.

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Originally Posted by Scherwiz

WOTG was released in 2007, the 20th of November in the US and the 22nd of November in Japan and Europe. The Patch for the expansion pack went live on Thanksgiving day. Many many many PC users didnt get the game till Saturday of that week.

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I remember that! In fact I think the shipment to my old store (EB Games) was delayed because of that (Canadian, ours is in Oct).