Patch 1.18 release date announced! July 21

[Seif]

I hope that one day Yoshida will stop saying every time "I'm sorry", "Please be patient", "We are doing our best".
Your best sucks, you're too slow. Stop with the apologies and start respecting people and schedules.

You said it sister! *finger wave*

[Kallera]

They could have just given me neither after promising several times that this content was coming and the game was going to be improved after admitting their initial failure and saying they would make it up to their loyal customers? Try again.

Some of you talk like SE isn't a business or something and I really find that amusing.

There's a large number of things SE can do with this game, not all of it to please you, at the end of the day, its their product, not yours. They could have halted on a date until the day of release, and you will still be complaining,

And you'll still complain once 1.18 is released, so I'm sure they're talking a longer view than satisfying the average forumgoer putting up threads about how SE is too slow and that soon Tera/GW2/Skyrim/Diablo, will be the game they will sever all social contact over.

[Colino]

Another Yoshida letter, another disappointment.

Actually I've been quite happy with most letters because they tended to give us information that would at least justify the delays in some way. Or at the very least something NEW that we could peruse/discuss.

This one was just utter disappointment though. It's also crazy how he says July 21st as if this was the best date possible and manages to slip in another delay of a couple of days like it's never been delayed before.

There's a large number of things SE can do with this game, not all of it to please you, at the end of the day, its their product, not yours. They could have halted on a date until the day of release, and you will still be complaining

I never said the game should please me, I said it should please their customers which it clearly is not. I'm one of those people that would rather not have a date than have a disappointing one, at least it's a surprise of sorts once it comes out.

And you'll still complain once 1.18 is released, so I'm sure they're talking a longer view than satisfying the average forumgoer putting up threads about how SE is too slow and that soon Tera/GW2/Skyrim/Diablo, will be the game they will sever all social contact over.

I never mention any other game when I criticize this one and I feel the "MAKE IT LIKE WOW/TERA/FFXI" people are the most annoying users on the forums. Even more than the whiteknights like yourself. The reason I'm so passionate about this game is because I want to play THIS GAME, not Tera, SWTOR or something else.

But thanks for making biased assumptions about me for the sake of making them.

[Alcide]

And you'll still complain once 1.18 is released, so I'm sure they're talking a longer view than satisfying the average forumgoer putting up threads about how SE is too slow and that soon Tera/GW2/Skyrim/Diablo, will be the game they will sever all social contact over.

That's a weird way of thinking, considering that people complaining on this forum are the only ones in the world that actually give a sh*t about this game... so if us that belived in SE and in FF14 at the point of waiting for a year won't be satisfied I really doubt that anyone else would ever be.

You can't go on pretending that everything is ok, because it's not. If they keep releasing patch at this rate and with the content we've seen so far, FF14 won't have the time to build a solid playerbase and if this happens when those competitors are gonna be released SE won't get a new user even if they set traps on the streets.

[Forerunner]

I wonder if Yoshida turned around and said "Well, they bitched about Tanaka saying sweet FA, and now they bitch about me, trying to read the general consensus of what-needs-to-be-done through 2,000+ posts of Kilta's broken english, and trolls, my little pony and whining/bitching, and moar bewbs! From LftP XIV onwards it'll be copypasta'd 'It'll get here when it does, bitches.'"

Shut up and let him do his job.

[Colino]

Shut up and let him do his job.

You say that like posting on the forums somehow slows him down.

[Andrien]

To certain individuals. If it is so disappointing by all means quit and don't come back, you'll be doing yourself and everyone else a favor because you're not helping. With that said, the dev letter explained very clearly bugs needs to be tested before implementation, every other letter feeds us vital information about what we asked for regarding this patch and beyond. We asked for a date and we got one. Yet some people still feel itchy enough to complain. You know who you are, no need to reply.

[Shikaree]

Just a short post about when they're going to get 1.18 out. Nothing else to the letter, no nice tidbits about what's possible in the future summer plans?

I think we could have just seen a basic Lodestone post about the patch date and it wouldn't be too much different.

[Colino]

I'm not the one to be elitist over in-game levels but please, it's pretty funny how most overly-defensive posts are from people who's highest job is under 30, which clearly means they haven't been playing the game long enough to understand where me and some others are coming from.

With that being sad I will quote Alcide in saying that the reason we are so fierce about our opinions is because we care about the game. Kind of like how your guys' moms disconnect your PC after you've been playing too many videogames.

[LateReg]

Just a short post about when they're going to get 1.18 out. Nothing else to the letter, no nice tidbits about what's possible in the future summer plans?

I think we could have just seen a basic Lodestone post about the patch date and it wouldn't be too much different.

But as long as he says "I'm sorry" it makes it all okay, right? -____- I'm hating that mentality he uses in his letters.

"ooops, delayed again. Sorry about that ^_^"

*everyone sympathizes*