Quote Originally Posted by obaley View Post
"Even if we break off some of the content and release it ahead of time in a 1.17b patch (which me might!), 1.18 will still go live sometime in mid-June at the earliest. Sorry for that."

These are Yoshi's exact words.

I think we will be pleasantly surprised with this patch.
^ This. Only good things can come too us from 1.17b and onward, the drought is over. Some of you don't see that, but the drought is really over.