1.17 > 1.18 = 3+ months. 1.18 > 1.19 = ???

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

The problem is that regardless of everyone's personal feelings, this game has to live up to the standards of a modern MMO. It doesn't have to do that now, that's not the point. Someday it will have to. That's the point.

And that's exactly my concern. I don't care about playing the game as it is. I care about the future prospects, and the problem is that 2-3 major patches will not be enough after 1.18. It still won't be up to par.

Whatever this forum might think is irrelevant. if there is no mass appeal, the game won't be left running for you alone.

I'm not frustrated. I'm not impatient. I just want the game to be a future success. The current development speed just won't be enough.

But who ever said that there were only going to be 2-3 major patches after 1.18? All that was said is that the team is currently working on major projects for 1.19 and 1.20 until the end of summer, but it seems obvious that this is not the end of the work. Obviously they have so much more to get done! No mention has even been eluded to in regards to Ishgard.

[Betelgeuzah]

But who ever said that there were only going to be 2-3 major patches after 1.18? All that was said is that the team is currently working on major projects for 1.19 and 1.20 until the end of summer, but it seems obvious that this is not the end of the work. Obviously they have so much more to get done! No mention has even been eluded to in regards to Ishgard.

There will be more, but the problem is the time it takes to get them out of the door... even after the pre-development time.

It makes the change in leadership completely stupid move in the long run. Instead of waiting 3 months for the next major patch in March, instead we are hit with a change in management, 5 months of low-profile development on the game... and on top of it the same 3 months of waiting for the major patch.

At this point Yoshida should be putting out patches to catch up- and hopefully surpass- Tanakas development schedule. Instead the major patches are still 3 months apart.

At this rate the November-May period was a waste of time.

They must have 1.19 and beyond ready to go much faster than it took to prepare 1.18. Otherwise we are looking at a late 2012 release schedule just because it took them so long to get started.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

There will be more, but the problem is the time it takes to get them out of the door... even after the pre-development time.

It makes the change in leadership completely stupid move in the long run. Instead of waiting 3 months for the next major patch in March, instead we are hit with a change in management, 5 months of low-profile development on the game... and on top of it the same 3 months of waiting for the major patch.

At this point Yoshida should be putting out patches to catch up- and hopefully surpass- Tanakas development schedule. Instead the major patches are still 3 months apart.

At this rate the November-May period was a waste of time.

They must have 1.19 and beyond ready to go much faster than it took to prepare 1.18. Otherwise we are looking at a late 2012 release schedule just because it took them so long to get started.

My previous post on page 12 (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...18-1.19/page12) explored this in more detail and speculated on why we shouldn't have to wait as long for 1.19 and 1.20 as we did for 1.18.