Patch 2.4 ~~~?

Hey just wondering if anyone knows when 2.4 or next content patch is coming? I know maintenance tonight but I am thinking that it's technical patch not content.
Thanks
Looking forward to thf/nin I'm just getting myself ready for sad df waits and more thf/nin in a party than I know what to do with

October at the earliest most likely.. Still have 2.38 to go as well.

2.38 in september looks like 2.4 is gonna be mid october i think?

I have no exact date, but 18.9. they want to talk about patch 2.38 so maybe you get some Infos there

2.38 is expected to go live around the time of the Tokyo Game Show I think.

my guess is the last week of october =) but of course i hope its sooner =)

SE loves Tuesdays. Why? I have no idea, maybe someone told them that Tuesday is the most receptive day for the week for MMO players, or perhaps some of their key staff have a bizarre Tuesday fetish.

At any rate... they've openly stated we can expect the next patch (2.38) to arrive "around the time of the Tokyo Game Show". Since the closest Tuesday after it (after, because there's no way in hell it'll come before the TGS) is Sep 23... I can say with near 100% certainty that we will get patch 2.38 on Tuesday, Sep 23 (EST).

As far as I know, 2.4 is currently slated for mid-late Oct. Hope that helps!

I'm gonna go with 2.4 around the first two Fanfests so around mid-late Oct.

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Originally Posted by Archadius

SE loves Tuesdays. Why?

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Most likely because it is the less busy day of the week, on stats about logins.

Late November to mid December - Remember yoshida likes dealing with the latest possible dates.

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

Most likely because it is the less busy day of the week, on stats about logins.

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Movies, Games also come out on Tuesdays. Here is an interesting article from NPR regarding Tuesday's
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2...ed-on-tuesdays

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

Most likely because it is the less busy day of the week, on stats about logins.

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To further add to this, doing patches early in the week gives them time to fix any critical errors without them having to come in on a weekend :P

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Originally Posted by Archadius

SE loves Tuesdays. Why? I have no idea, maybe someone told them that Tuesday is the most receptive day for the week for MMO players, or perhaps some of their key staff have a bizarre Tuesday fetish.

At any rate... they've openly stated we can expect the next patch (2.38) to arrive "around the time of the Tokyo Game Show". Since the closest Tuesday after it (after, because there's no way in hell it'll come before the TGS) is Sep 23... I can say with near 100% certainty that we will get patch 2.38 on Tuesday, Sep 23 (EST).

As far as I know, 2.4 is currently slated for mid-late Oct. Hope that helps!

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Don't tell me you would prefer Friday, Saturday or Sunday as their choice of Maintenance. o.O

Give or take that everywhere in the world, Mondays are dreadful and annoying, and just like cars built in the morning can have some disastrous endings (joking here ;) ) I'm quite ok with Tuesdays for Maintenance.

OP - I guess either you were misinformed, or just too hyped like me for a new Class/Job to "finally" come to this "fantasy"

By the way, you don't have to overthink much about thf (which is Rogue, not Thief) and Ninja, as there is no other options available, until they might redo the class system, at or after the expansion I've read.

While these are very interesting points...

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Most likely because it is the less busy day of the week, on stats about logins.

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Originally Posted by Capattac

Movies, Games also come out on Tuesdays. Here is an interesting article from NPR regarding Tuesday's
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2...ed-on-tuesdays

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...I would question as to why this system has been adopted (if such is the case) for something that does not involve a retail store or a physical product for that matter. It's based purely on digital distribution and SE (in theory) has the option to release content patches on any day of their choosing, as I'm sure they have staff on duty to monitor the FFXIV servers at any given hour of the day.

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Originally Posted by KingOfAbyss

Don't tell me you would prefer Friday, Saturday or Sunday as their choice of Maintenance. o.O

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Haha! No way, I'm just suprised that they chose that day, given the information above. Personally I don't think it'd be much different if they decided to release patches on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Major patches usually come every 3rd month.
2.3 came 7th July, so 2.4 should be in October.

I say mid-November. Some major competition around that time and there is no better way to fight it than a badass new class + content.

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

Most likely because it is the less busy day of the week, on stats about logins.

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not only that but imo its also because they want the patch to go llie when weekly resets happens

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Originally Posted by Archadius

SE loves Tuesdays. Why?!

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I cant speak for SE, but as a software developer i can give what i personally look at. The big considerations of when we do a patch revolve around urgency, user impact, and employee logistics. From the employee logistics standpoint you want to avoid weekends. Also want to avoid mon/fri as those are frequent days taken as vacation (as well as observed holidays). So tues/wed/thurs would probably be ideal from that perspective.

I would guess that those days also align with the least user impact in this case.

So for planned patches it would seem to make sense to pick a day early in that window so you hopefully have time to respond to urgent issues still in that same timeframe.

I remember the DCUO devs stating that PSN Does client side updates on Tuesdays so devs have to roll their stuff out on that day.

Mid-late October. I'm really hoping it's either that or early November. If the patch comes late Nov-December, then it'll be nostalgia all over again, considering the first patch was late too :P

It wouldn't surprise me to see it Mid/Late October.

We should have all info of it though before that time.
I say this because Yoshi has said past few interviews that they want to talk about expansion but holding stuff for Fan Fest.
Meaning I would say NA and EU Fan Fest will prob get information about 2.5 perhaps expansion reveal and the JPN Fan Fest (last one) will be about 2.5 and reveal of expansion (if not at earlier Fan Fest) and more tidbits.

No way will each event have all rehashed info.

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Originally Posted by Archadius

At any rate... they've openly stated we can expect the next patch (2.38) to arrive "around the time of the Tokyo Game Show". Since the closest Tuesday after it (after, because there's no way in hell it'll come before the TGS) is Sep 23... I can say with near 100% certainty that we will get patch 2.38 on Tuesday, Sep 23 (EST).

As far as I know, 2.4 is currently slated for mid-late Oct. Hope that helps!

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I enjoy this logic and agree!

I'm going to say the last few week of October or the first week of November. Big patches are usually at least 5ish weeks apart and SE made it seem like 2.38 will be out late September.

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SE loves Tuesdays. Why? I have no idea,

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The origin of Tuesday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday

cant come soon enough D:

As most sysadmins will tell you do stuff early in the week so you have time during the week to fix whatever breaks(because let's face it noone likes to work late on a friday or work on sat/sun). Mondays you generally plan and prep for the deploy.

As for 2.4 yeah mid-late october seems to be the point. I'm guessing before the fanfest though since they want to focus on the expansion during that.

As far as I remember, this patch would take a while because they had to balance the new job with all the now existing content. They also have to include a new tier of gear, quests and that. The patches were, so far, only more content to do. This one includes something really important.

I think they've said mid-late October (not sure why they ever bother giving a range because it's invariably the end of the range). Yoshi definitely said to expect 2.38 around the time of TGS, so mid-late September for that. I'd guess 3 weeks minimum between that and 2.4, most likely 4-5 weeks.

As for the Tuesday thing, I think it's mostly just Monday is last minute prep for deployment and then Tuesday is relatively early in the week so they can fix whatever major thing that they break before the weekend. It also nicely coincides with the weekly reset (now). I think when the reset was on Monday, for whatever reason, it actually created a whole 1 day week where people could cap tomes (mythology at the time) again for that one day to get a bit ahead if there was a patch on Tuesday. If their system is set up where they can't do major updates without resetting weekly caps (again, no idea why but it seems to have been a problem) then we can be relatively sure that we'll never see a major patch on any other day of the week.

October is a huge month for new releases. SE may think of releasing 2.4 to compete with those games.

HOWEVER:

A bunch of those games have been delayed to November. So SE may delay the patch to compete with the November releases. Either way, they could be screwed. If 2.4 is released in October, they'll probably lose people to the November games. If they release 2.4 in November, they lose people to the October games. OOOOOOR SE doesn't care about those releases and releases in October anyway.

In SE's mind, if people stop logging on to play the October/November releases, it doesn't matter as long as those people are still subbed and paying SE even if they aren't playing.

They wil lose people to the october/november insane releases one way or another. But if they release it in october the people that are busy with those games in october will return november and those in novemeber will/ be playing in october. And that should give SE enough time for 2.45 for december or so to grab the lot back in hehe.

I hardly touch any other game thas ffxiv though. Do have some I still haven't played. Basically if I vere get stuck with downtime I can enjoy them then hehe.

I have a feeling that 2.4 will be released just after Fanfest with players getting to test things out beforehand in Vegas.

Most infos SE would announce in the Fanfest would be about 3.0 and maybe also 2.5
I think 2.4 come before Fanfest, so they can do during the Fanfest a Shiva contest battle (if Shiva come with 2.4).