New interview from Famitsu Connect-On Magazine Aug.2011

[Malakhim]

So why do people keep assuming airships and such are coming with patch 1.19 again?

[Rentahamster]

So why do people keep assuming airships and such are coming with patch 1.19 again?

Because he said in a post that he wants to get the 3 cities' airships working by 1.19, if possible.

[viion]

O.O You know it's going to be a crazy week when you jump on the forums and even Viion is in a positive mood!

haha, maybe its the heat getting to me, very hot in England right now.

But i am still psyched, and the letter just made even more excited.

[Malakhim]

Because he said in a post that he wants to get the 3 cities' airships working by 1.19, if possible.

Oh... Well here's to hoping then.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

haha, maybe its the heat getting to me, very hot in England right now.

But i am still psyched, and the letter just made even more excited.

You're not the only one. I have seen a few people who have been historically critical of the game start to have a glimmer of hope. Lets hope the Dev Team actually does have their fingers on the pulse of the community and can keep up their momentum!

Cheers!

[Perrin_Aybarra]

You're not the only one. I have seen a few people who have been historically critical of the game start to have a glimmer of hope. Lets hope the Dev Team actually does have their fingers on the pulse of the community and can keep up their momentum!

Cheers!

^^ Yeah I feel excited as well! I am even contemplating starting over from scratch once all these things are implemented by the end of summer just to experience the game in all it's new glory. But then I remembered I can just level another class and it will be just as good :P

[Kristina_Farron]

So why do people keep assuming airships and such are coming with patch 1.19 again?

Because Yoshida posted this last Friday.
In this post he basically re-emphasized his team is revamping the map, try to resolving the problem that Limsa and Gridania have no people (some detail already revealed in today's producer letter). Final part he said the devteam is doing their best to let Airship system catch up with 1.19 release.

FFXIVプロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。
少しパッチ1.18の作業も落ち着いてきたので、ポストさせて頂きますね。
[..omitted..]
最後に3国の飛空挺移動（実MAP上を飛行するシステムではないです）はMAP大改修前になんとかします！
パッチ1.19に間に合うよう、頑張りますので、今しばらくお待ちください！

[Kensaki]

I like how someone links a translation of a supposed article from the august 2011(remind me what month are we in now?) edition of connect-on and takes it as gospel.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

I like how someone links a translation of a supposed article from the august 2011(remind me what month are we in now?) edition of connect-on and takes it as gospel.

Magazines dates are always a month in advance, the august edition is released at the end of june for most magazine (where I live anyways) So I don't see what you are trying to say here.

[Kristina_Farron]

I like how someone links a translation of a supposed article from the august 2011(remind me what month are we in now?) edition of connect-on and takes it as gospel.

You mean "the magazine from the future"?
Well its an interesting business behavior of Japanese book dealers.
Due to many reason about the transportation and stock management, most of Japanese magazines mark itself 1 period faster than calendar date. (In this example, the volume "August" comes at the head of July.)

I quoted the original book link on Amazon JP so everyone can check by themselves.