no update info?

[Reinheart]

I was hoping by 9/30 since that's the date YoshiP said in the interview that's when his (SE's) summer ends in the interview.
Maybe having some difficulty since it does seem like 1.19 is huge patch... hopefully by first week of October... before my B'day lol... I have a good reason to play FFXIV to tell my wife... ITS MY BDAY!! LET ME PLAY AT LEAST TONIGHT!!

[Gramul]

Far as I'm concerned, no news is good news at this point.
To me, it means they're putting all their efforts into finishing the patch.

[Coombah]

Far as I'm concerned, no news is good news at this point.
To me, it means they're putting all their efforts into finishing the patch.

Yeah info is just a matter of minutes to write stay focused team get the patch right the frst time

[Fixy]

the patch would already be out if they had a test realm where people could help iron out bugs, cause i can bet you the patch is 100% done, theyre just ironing out bugs.

[Betelgeuzah]

the patch would already be out if they had a test realm where people could help iron out bugs, cause i can bet you the patch is 100% done, theyre just ironing out bugs.

Finding bugs ain't exactly hard, and we can't help with the actual programming. I'm sure those actually ironing out everything aren't exactly fiddling their thumbs as we speak.

And design wise, everything is related to each other. You can't just test one feature because they're all connected and integral to each other. And if one of said features isn't ready to be tested, there's no use testing the rest.

As far as the game's current state (working on features that are usually dealt with in pre-alpha stage), a test server is useless. Like with any other game in pre-alpha stage.

[Gramul]

info is just a matter of minutes to write

Man, if only. Evey time I heard them talking about why the info on the updates where so far apart, it was always something about them having to sift through info, deciding what to write and how, how much they can reveal, how it's translated, and all sorts of junk like that.
A crazy amount of planning goes into every Dev update and it takes more time to do them then what people might think.
Either way, it's only a matter of time.

[SAMINUS]

i do recall him stating somewhere the the letter will come very close to when 1.19 goes live.

Very close.. like a few minutes before it goes live kinda close? That would be kinda mean :/

[PikachuLink]

i speculate after october 11th i figure they'll finish this event before worrying bout dropping patch the event will be a lil bit of something to do till releasal im expecting it after oct 11th

[Chrees]

Very close.. like a few minutes before it goes live kinda close? That would be kinda mean :/

"....but saying that, with current work load the letter most likely going to be right before patch 1.19 release."

So most likely a day or two before the patch, I'd guess.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post335664

[Griss]

From producer letter 16

The team’s working hell-for-leather to deliver this monster patch (did I mention that it’s a giant next to 1.18?) to you by the end of September. We’d love to be able to release the patch sooner, but all things considered, I’m afraid this is the [b]earliest[b] we can reasonably achieve.

To me this says were working our asses off here and were shooting for this goal but we might not hit it exactly. This is reinforced by the following statement earlier on in the letter

Just so you’re given due warning, the team is running on a tightrope to stay on schedule, so please don’t be surprised if a handful of things end up getting put off until 1.19a or later.

So, it will arrive when it arrives. Got to say though with the volume of info we have been getting as of late were probably getting close. And for all we know we could wake up tomorrow to find the preview patch notes on the stone.