The Letter is up

[Molly_Millions]

Um, guys? The patch isn't delayed. Am I the only one that payed attention to the part of the 9th letter that said patch 1.18 would be released in mid-June AT THE EARLIEST? According to that, nothing is late, it's not even the 15th yet.

Here it is for everyone who missed it:

1.18 is going to be relatively bigger than previous patches. This means that balancing is going to take more time than usual, and so we’re anticipating a somewhat longer period between patches. 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.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

Um, guys? The patch isn't delayed. Am I the only one that payed attention to the part of the 10th letter that said patch 1.18 would be released in mid-June AT THE EARLIEST? According to that, nothing is late, it's not even the 15th yet.

Reading comprehension +3! Good Job Molly, your leagues ahead of most people visiting these forums.

[Isaaru]

Reading comprehension +3! Good Job Molly, your leagues ahead of most people visiting these forums.

No, not reading comprehension +3. It was delayed from it's earliest planned date. It's still delayed :P

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

No, not reading comprehension +3. It was delayed from it's earliest planned date. It's still delayed :P

It's not a PLAN unless it's stated explicitly, not generally.

[Isaaru]

It's not a PLAN unless it's stated explicitly, not generally.

Square posted the release of the patch would be at earliest mid-June meaning they had intentions on releasing it mid-June if all went well. There appears to be something with the development team that DELAYed the mid-June release. Their use of the phrase "at earliest" was used as a simple way of not promising anything like Yoshida has said he does not like to do in earlier letters. He was most likely aware that there could be a DELAY in development so he stated at earliest mid-June. Therefore, the mid-June release date of it was DELAYed to a later date, specifically two weeks from it.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

Square posted the release of the patch would be at earliest mid-June meaning they had intentions on releasing it mid-June if all went well. There appears to be something with the development team that DELAYed the mid-June release. Their use of the phrase "at earliest" was used as a simple way of not promising anything like Yoshida has said he does not like to do in earlier letters. He was most likely aware that there could be a DELAY in development so he stated at earliest mid-June. Therefore, the mid-June release date of it was DELAYed to a later date, specifically two weeks from it.

There is nothing specific about saying "Mid-June" or "Early-Mid July". There was no date given, period, hence no plan. You could say that Yoshi HOPED to have the patch done by mid-june, but the fact that he built leeway into his statement shows that it was a proposal at best. Patch 1.17c is PLANNED to go in tomorrow. Patch 1.18 is PROPOSED to go in early-mid June. Something doesn't have to be PLANNED to be delayed.

[Isaaru]

Something doesn't have to be PLANNED to be delayed.

Exactly, so it was delayed.