Letter from the Producer, XVI (08/15/2011)

[Colino]

Well "Summer" is viewed diferently depending on the region. Western view summer is ending the weekend of Labor Day in Sept so they won't be TOO far off that mark if there is no delays.

Nope. It does start in December in some parts of the world, but it doesn't end in late September anywhere on the planet.

But hey some fanboys are willing to say Yoshi was implying END OF SUMMER 2012 just to defend him and his *** promises.

[Misha]

I think that this (in bold) is for DoH/DoL, sounds like it anyways.

I believe that'll refer to repeatable content so we can get more marks when we run outta non repeatable quests. Something that's definitely needed and they've acknowledged this in the past already

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Nope. It does start in December in some parts of the world, but it doesn't end in late September anywhere on the planet.

But hey some fanboys are willing to say Yoshi was implying END OF SUMMER 2012 just to defend him and his bullshit promises.

You seem a bit ignorant of the "rest of the world" by saying that. I live in Canada and this year the summer ends September 22nd (Fall starts on the 23rd) so, yeah summer ends in late September somewhere in the world

[Darium]

You seem a bit ignorant of the "rest of the world" by saying that. I live in Canada and this year the summer ends September 22nd (Fall starts on the 23rd) so, yeah summer ends in late September somewhere in the world

Beat me to it.

I was just about to post this.

The last day of summer in the northern hemisphere is the day of autumn equinox, meaning 23rd September this year.

[Colino]

You seem a bit ignorant of the "rest of the world" by saying that. I live in Canada and this year the summer ends September 22nd (Fall starts on the 23rd) so, yeah summer ends in late September somewhere in the world

22nd isn't exactly "late", at least from my POV. Late usually means the last week of the month, if not the last couple of days. I'm hopeful no delays happen at least this time around, because we already know he won't manage to stand by the infamous "end of summer" feature list.

It ends September 22nd in plenty parts of the world by the way, but thanks for calling me ignorant for no reason at all.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

22nd isn't exactly "late", at least from my POV. Late usually means the last week of the month, if not the last couple of days. I'm hopeful no delays happen at least this time around, because we already know he won't manage to stand by the infamous "end of summer" feature list.

It ends September 22nd in plenty parts of the world by the way, but thanks for calling me ignorant for no reason at all.

I called you ignorant because you stated that summer does not end late September anywhere on the planet when it clearly does so. Plus the fact that you called people "fanboy" for actually knowing when summer ends in the northen hemisphere which is really just ignorant.

You try to defend yourself saying that Sept 22nd is not late in your book and saying that late would be the last week of September, well the 22nd is the thursday just before the last week so it's not that much sooner than your "late".

And sorry if I offended you.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

September becomes the Kessen once again. Let us hope that 1.19 doesn't have to sing the ABCs!

[Colino]

I called you ignorant because you stated that summer does not end late September anywhere on the planet when it clearly does so. Plus the fact that you called people "fanboy" for actually knowing when summer ends in the northen hemisphere which is really just ignorant.

You try to defend yourself saying that Sept 22nd is not late in your book and saying that late would be the last week of September, well the 22nd is the thursday just before the last week so it's not that much sooner than your "late".

And sorry if I offended you.

First of all, I didn't call you a fanboy. I said that some fanboys make up some pretty incredible excuses, I didn't say you did because your excuse wasn't incredible at all.

Second of all, we can just agree to disagree on the third week of the month being late or not (I clearly disagree since the 22nd is barely after the third week, which as you know is simply 3/4s of a month, clearly not the last 90% or so which would imply "late") but that's no reason to call someone ignorant.

It's all semantics anyway, there's clearly no point in arguing over it, nor is there a reason for namecalling.

I'm only slightly dissapointed because despite the quite large amount of content 1.19 is bringing (I'm overall happy with the patch) it's just NOT ENOUGH, at least for me. And since it's coming "late september" (which might mean early october at the earliest, look at their track record) this patch will be marking the 1st Anniversary since the games launch... And that's just dissapointing considering that one year ago I was expecting this game to have completely flipped around by then. It clearly hasn't.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

First of all, I didn't call you a fanboy. I said that some fanboys make up some pretty incredible excuses, I didn't say you did because your excuse wasn't incredible at all.

Second of all, we can just agree to disagree on the third week of the month being late or not (I clearly disagree since the 22nd is barely after the third week, which as you know is simply 3/4s of a month, clearly not the last 90% or so which would imply "late") but that's no reason to call someone ignorant.

It's all semantics anyway, there's clearly no point in arguing over it, nor is there a reason for namecalling.

I'm only slightly dissapointed because despite the quite large amount of content 1.19 is bringing (I'm overall happy with the patch) it's just NOT ENOUGH, at least for me. And since it's coming "late september" (which might mean early october at the earliest, look at their track record) this patch will be marking the 1st Anniversary since the games launch... And that's just dissapointing considering that one year ago I was expecting this game to have completely flipped around by then. It clearly hasn't.

I get your feeling don't get me wrong. I am extatic about this patch, there is so much stuff in it that it sounds like a monster patch like Yoshi said, assuming the chocobos do make it in 1.19. And I am a bit bumped out because I thought 1.19 would come late august and that 1.20 would be late september, end of summer since I had the feeling that 1.20 was marking the end of the big battle overhaul which was supposed to be over at the end of summer.

As for the fanboy thing, I might have misunderstood. I know you did not call me a fanboy but I thought it wrong to call others that since the end of summer is the end of September for some. But if you said that people are making excuses because you thought 1.20 would be at the end of summer like I did, then yes I understand your frustration.

[Colino]

But if you said that people are making excuses because you thougt 1.20 would be at the end of summer like I did, then yes I understand your frustration.

That's exactly it.

The fact of the matter is, wether 1.19 comes out in the Summer or not, it doesn't really matter because that overall "end of summer" schedule just won't be reached, no matter what. Which is extremely dissapointing, at least for me.

I really was hoping 1.19 would be August and 1.20 would be September... I'd even sacrifice some of the content in this 1.19 just to get it earlier, but I really don't see any of that happening.