Patch 1.21, I need you now

Does anything think we are going to get an end of February release?

I'm one of the hopefuls that wants this to be true, but with every passing day, I feel like a delay is in the works.

I know, I know: this post has no real use and may very well be flamed, but I'm bored. BF3 and Dota2 whilst waiting is getting boring lol. Come on SE, Idk how much longer I can wait!

In the mean time, jam out to some tunez.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb1o42RdVzA

You play BF3 on PC? :D

It'll be here when it gets here! I don't want to look forward to it too much, because that will make the wait seem longer!

I still have Saints Row: The Third to play, and I've been at 100% completion of that game for about 2 months now.

We had FFXIII-2 while waiting ^^ but pitty enough I got that game completed for the 100% :(

Now back to BF3 on PS3 and working a bit on my thesis for university =)

One of these posts again, it will be ready when its ready.

I'm looking forward to jobs I must admit.

I fuckin need you mooooore than ever! A total eclipse of my heart~

I thought it was supposed to be out by now o.O 2 weeks delay from early Feb...oh well it'll be here when it's ready I suppose lol

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Originally Posted by Prox

I fuckin need you mooooore than ever! A total eclipse of my heart~

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Awesomeness in a jar.

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Originally Posted by Babydoll

I thought it was supposed to be out by now o.O 2 weeks delay from early Feb...oh well it'll be here when it's ready I suppose lol

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Originally Posted by Naoki Yoshida

I’d also like to share some info on the release schedule for 1.21. We’d originally aimed for the patch to go live in the second week of February, but after looking over the amount of content and all the accompanying UI changes, localization, balancing, QA’ing, and such, we’re currently looking at a delay of about two weeks. We’re pushing really hard for an end-of-February release, but ask that you wait a bit and keep an eye on the announcements we’ll be making on the forums and in Topics regarding details. (Don’t worry, none of this will have any effect on the version 2.0 schedule!)

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"Aiming for" and "pushing hard for", usually means it will get delayed some more. My guess is early March.

Doh >_< on the bright side 1.22 is due in April lol by the time 1.21 arrives 1.22 will be here before we know it :) yay garuda fight!

At this point you cant believe anything they say. We were gonna get juicy info and we got nothing. 2012 been terrible when it comes to communication from SE.

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Originally Posted by Babydoll

I thought it was supposed to be out by now o.O 2 weeks delay from early Feb...oh well it'll be here when it's ready I suppose lol

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early feb + 2 weeks would be end feb
we have still mid feb ^^

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Originally Posted by Felis

early feb + 2 weeks would be end feb
we have still mid feb ^^

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I'm still afraid it may hit early March the rate they are giving us information.

The server population needs the patch soon. It's been so dead on Fabul, I'm guessing, because there hasn't been a patch in so long. So far, people seem to log in most often right after a patch drops. Then after a few weeks when people feel like they have exhausted the content of that patch, they go back to waiting for the next patch. With 1.21 having so much content, people may actually keep coming back for a while. I can't wait for that.

Fabul is a ghost town at this point. Even the people I know who werent gonna play SWOTR canceled their XIV for this month and went to play that just cuz they were bored.

Watch JP side (specially 2ch forums) going to complain again and say YoshiP breaks promises and he said he's not that type of person in interviews... lol delays happen... they need to get used to it...

Anyways I was also hoping this to be released at least end of next week but looking at how the topics about 1.21 not popping up like new raid dungeon video's.... Guessing it might get pushed into early March.

Eh I think they're working as hard as they can on getting it out. Anticipation is killer but I'd rather a delay giving a better final product than for them to rush it out and botch something.

People go off on the devs all the time about their promises but I truely believe they do the best they can, they're just programmers after all, not magicians.

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Originally Posted by ArnoMorley

Eh I think they're working as hard as they can on getting it out. Anticipation is killer but I'd rather a delay giving a better final product than for them to rush it out and botch something.

People go off on the devs all the time about their promises but I truely believe they do the best they can, they're just programmers after all, not magicians.

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I understand delays happen and I am okay with pushing back, but I feel SE has not been communicating well on this regard. I am fine with an early March release, but they really need to update more on what is going on. You would think with already delaying the patch, they would try to keep us in the loop as much as possible, this is not happening. Hopefully tomorrow, some detailed information will happen, but at this point, I am not getting my hopes up.

I thought Yoshi-p was planning a players poll before 1.21 .. what happened !! ?

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Originally Posted by Babydoll

Doh >_< on the bright side 1.22 is due in April lol by the time 1.21 arrives 1.22 will be here before we know it :) yay garuda fight!

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You have to remember that every deadline gets pushed back when 1 delay happens. 1.20 was delayed 2 weeks. This means 1.21 slated for a Feb 15th release was pushed back 2 weeks then you have to add a week to a normal delay for a patch. You get the first week of march.

To believe that 1.22 will be out in April is naive. You have to then add 2 weeks from the first delay plus a week from the second. So I'm gonna guess Mid May for 1.22.

“Delays do not concern me, Adventurer. I want that patch, not excuses.”


The irony, personally speaking, I don't think there should be such anxiety for patch 1.21. Yoshida recently said in one of his server merge posts that the patch is almost completed and won't be further delayed, so I think that before February 29th we should get it. ;)

Also, I think recently we got the basic announcements on The Lodestone. I believe it seems like we haven't because the 2 “Big Ones”, the Jobs stuff and the Instanced Raids + Video, haven't been published yet... but actually, those are probably the only 2 remaining. I think all the others have already been published.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

I thought Yoshi-p was planning a players poll before 1.21 .. what happened !! ?

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That said, as a matter of fact, the only real announcement we haven't heard anything of is the mentioned “Player's Poll”, that was scheduled to be released in Mid-January.
Again, personally speaking I don't particularly care about the Poll itself, but I think it's very important to at least give some update on this matter for “reliability purposes” (reliability on the dev team, that is), as in the past month as far as I know we haven't heard anything at all. Some words on this wouldn't hurt. :)

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Originally Posted by Cichy

At this point you cant believe anything they say. We were gonna get juicy info and we got nothing. 2012 been terrible when it comes to communication from SE.

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

You play BF3 on PC? :D

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Battlefield 3 for PC yes. And from the pulse of this thread, I'm seeing a lot of pessimism. Glad I'm not the only one :P

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Originally Posted by Serdapi

You have to remember that every deadline gets pushed back when 1 delay happens. 1.20 was delayed 2 weeks. This means 1.21 slated for a Feb 15th release was pushed back 2 weeks then you have to add a week to a normal delay for a patch. You get the first week of march.

To believe that 1.22 will be out in April is naive. You have to then add 2 weeks from the first delay plus a week from the second. So I'm gonna guess Mid May for 1.22.

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Just to point out in an interview they did say every patch is worked by different teams or teams that already finished their part will move right into next patches works so it's technically not supposed to have any delays but as we all know so far almost every patch had some sort of delay.

Delay's fine with me as a programmer (non-game) I know delays happen along the way + it should be fixed before releasing rather than having more issue later on but say if I'm coding for my paying customer I would have to update them time to time even if it's delayed. Even if I just have to tell them "hey we're working on it, it's almost there" since telling them the details of the technical difficulty would just confuse some of them + some clients don't care any of that stuff, all they care about is the end result. If my client asks for what's being fixed/worked on I can give them the run down of those but anyways...

Pretty sure some people on this forum think same way, they don't care about what issue dev's are having just release the damn thing!! it's easy to say that but once they do release don't bitch and cry about the issue later since they were trying to fix those before release.

If the devs can keep us in the loop I'm cool with it. At least we do hear Yoshi say it so I'm happier than how it was with FFXI updates lol.

Some of you probably don't know this but for FFXI JP PC release they did have a forum called dev's corner or something within the PlayOnline system, JP players talked about different issue they had back then and sometimes we got small responses but at one point they had issue with this item called Treat Staff which was a Halloween event item which granted you warp effect when you hit a mob which allowed players to go back to their home point instantly. After the Halloween event devs decided to change the stats so you can't warp back like it used too since it was too good, which is fine... but the problem was they didn't report anything anywhere... not even on website, not on forums, nothing, even the game magazine interviews skipped that question so people went berserk on the PlayOnline forum demanding devs to just tell us sorry for the error or something... what SE decided was to ban everyone complaining and close down the forums :) and of course without telling anyone that they are closing the forums.

Basically what Reinheart said! I meant to reply earlier but got busy >< But yeah Yoshi said before each patch is worked on by different teams to ensure it is released on time :) If SE is going to delay things like this that is fine I guess?..we can't do anything about it anyway but rant and be bored but I wish at least they show us some new stuff to keep our interest :) People WANT to keep playing..they want to stay interested but it makes it hard when there is lots of delays and info is sparse! I am not complaining myself, just stating what I read on the forums and on 2ch.

lol well look at this way, once the 2.0 and ps3 people come in and start complaining about the game we can say to the



STFU...

I NEED YOU NOW

I'm playing Tales of Abyss on 3DS until the predicted release date, and if it is delayed I still get my PSVita that day and I might even be sick from Mardi Gras since it ends the day before.

I just want to play Bard...
"Will play music for arrows!"