Letter from the Producer, XIX (09/27/2011)

[NoctisUmbra]

i aksed this also and got no answer.

whats does it mean? can someone answer?

Levequest History and Evaluation

Upon completing a levequest and collecting the rewards, the leve will be moved from the player’s Journal to Levequest History, which displays the details of the eight most recently completed leves. Requesting an evaluation at the Adventurers’ Guild with at least one levequest in the history will earn you a new leve, the nature of which varies based on your levequest history. At this point in time your history will be cleared.
* Leves issued via the evaluation count towards the player’s allowance.

In patch 1.19, the combination of levequests in the history will determine the bonuses granted upon completing a levequest issued via evaluation. However, the evaluation system will be expanded in the future.

Essentially the whole ticket system will be in place, but the tab that lets you see the last 8 leves you completed won't be until 1.19a

[NoctisUmbra]

Did anyone bother to pay attention to the HP and MP values for the different classes in the party killing Ifrit?

With attribute allocation becoming static, and this video being from a 1.19 game, I figured more people would be curious.

Pay attention to the massive HP buff GLAs and I think ARCs too got. ARC and especially MRD also seem to have even more drastically buffed MP.

Pugilist appears more or less the same though. Red-headed step child status continues...

[DNO]

Essentially the whole ticket system will be in place, but the tab that lets you see the last 8 leves you completed won't be until 1.19a

ahhh cool thanks i was confused. as long as the ticket system i in 1.19 i am ok with this delay.

[Betelgeuzah]

Look at it in terms of birthing a baby. It's said to take 9 months, but it's rarely ever exactly nine months, sometimes it's a few days or weeks early, sometimes late. Better this patch be a healthy bouncing baby than stump it's growth.

I'm not complaining, I'll take few days over longer than a month.

Just saying that giving them any credit for being close to the mark is pretty silly. They haven't been off the mark up until 2011.

[Biggs]

I guess I may be the only one that feels this way, and at the risk of being flamed by most of you on here for saying this, even though its only a few days, I am seriously irritated by the delay. Hear me out: I am not upset that the delay is keeping me from getting the patch sooner. I have waited since release for them to fix this game while playing, and having to wait a few days more from when they said they would release it isn't the end of the world to me. What bothers me the most about the delay is twofold. First, its irritating to me that a team that is supposedly working day and night to fix a game that must be costing them money to keep up can't seem to meet even basic deadlines they set for themselves consistantly (as this certainly isn't the first time there has been delays). Second, I would think that getting something that changes the game as much as they say this patch will out in time for the one year anniversary would be a priority. I mean, what better way to show the players and the people on the sidelines waiting for the game to get better your serious about resurrecting this title then to have a major change hit it a year after it tanked?

Like I said, its not the end of the world that I have to wait, it just bothers me that many of the players seem to be more interested in turning this title around then the developers do. And quiet frankly, given how long this whole 1.19 process has taken, I can't possibly see how they will put out another large patch like this by the end of this year. Its embarrassing.

[Davorok]

Hmmm, Patch Notes on 30th for us to pour over and patch on 4th? I predict more delays after the rage threads start.

[3Jane]

You forgot carton.

[Delsus]

I guess I may be the only one that feels this way, and at the risk of being flamed by most of you on here for saying this, even though its only a few days, I am seriously irritated by the delay. Hear me out: I am not upset that the delay is keeping me from getting the patch sooner. I have waited since release for them to fix this game while playing, and having to wait a few days more from when they said they would release it isn't the end of the world to me. What bothers me the most about the delay is twofold. First, its irritating to me that a team that is supposedly working day and night to fix a game that must be costing them money to keep up can't seem to meet even basic deadlines they set for themselves consistantly (as this certainly isn't the first time there has been delays). Second, I would think that getting something that changes the game as much as they say this patch will out in time for the one year anniversary would be a priority. I mean, what better way to show the players and the people on the sidelines waiting for the game to get better your serious about resurrecting this title then to have a major change hit it a year after it tanked?

Like I said, its not the end of the world that I have to wait, it just bothers me that many of the players seem to be more interested in turning this title around then the developers do. And quiet frankly, given how long this whole 1.19 process has taken, I can't possibly see how they will put out another large patch like this by the end of this year. Its embarrassing.

The game is not in this state because it was delayed, it is in this state because it was released too soon, if they rush patches out to meet deadlines it will fail end of story, but if patches are delayed, and the devs take time over them it can succeed, its feedback like yours that made the game what it is (well its because the devs didnt listen in the alpha and beta) but overall it is because it was released too soon. If they start rushing patches out to meet deadlines it WILL kill the game.

If you know anything about software development you know that there can be unforseen problems and if these are not taken into account you will see the release of the game all over again ie, instant fail.

I said to a friend on the first day of the alpha test "this game will not be released ontime" while I was wrong in a way I was right because it should have been delayed, but Tanaka chose not to delay the release because it would look bad, you really want them to make that mistake again?

Delays mean they have found problems they did not initially expect and are fixing them rather than leaving them like the recent FFXI cure bug that made cures do 99,999 to all undead mobs, this was fixed fast but its the sort of bug FFXIV does not need.

[DNO]

I guess I may be the only one that feels this way, and at the risk of being flamed by most of you on here for saying this, even though its only a few days, I am seriously irritated by the delay. Hear me out: I am not upset that the delay is keeping me from getting the patch sooner. I have waited since release for them to fix this game while playing, and having to wait a few days more from when they said they would release it isn't the end of the world to me. What bothers me the most about the delay is twofold. First, its irritating to me that a team that is supposedly working day and night to fix a game that must be costing them money to keep up can't seem to meet even basic deadlines they set for themselves consistantly (as this certainly isn't the first time there has been delays). Second, I would think that getting something that changes the game as much as they say this patch will out in time for the one year anniversary would be a priority. I mean, what better way to show the players and the people on the sidelines waiting for the game to get better your serious about resurrecting this title then to have a major change hit it a year after it tanked?

Like I said, its not the end of the world that I have to wait, it just bothers me that many of the players seem to be more interested in turning this title around then the developers do. And quiet frankly, given how long this whole 1.19 process has taken, I can't possibly see how they will put out another large patch like this by the end of this year. Its embarrassing.

all i see is blah blah blah delay.

its 4 days and 2 of them are the weekend. bitching about a 2 workday delay is embarrassing.

[Dreadnought]

only 2 work days delayed is not bad at all! i really did know better not to get my hopes up for friday but couldnt help myself so when i heard there was a delay i was relieved to see it was only a couple of days for quality assurance. that speaks volumes to me.
1.19a shouldnt be too long away from 1.19, like two weeks maybe? i think thats how 1.18a was anyway.