The patch notes for SB will not be available until Lodestone maintenance ends

[Jendor]

To the dev team: Can you please give us the patch notes for Stormblood before you start the maintenance at the Lodestone? Those notes are not available for reading during Lodestone maintenance. I want to play the game instead of reading after early access begins.

[Dement]

If they follow the Heavensward release schedule then preliminary patch notes should be available tonight.

[Jendor]

From http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...b4bb84c5dcc63c

Upcoming Schedule:

Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:00 (BST) / 09:00 (GMT): All Worlds Maintenance (24 Hours)
Friday June 16, 2017 at 05:00 (BST) / 04:00 (GMT): Stormblood patch note reading
Friday, June 16, 2017 at 10:00 (BST) / 09:00 (GMT): Early access begins
Friday, June 16, 2017: PlayStation®3 service ends
Tuesday, June 20, 2017: FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood launches
Tuesday, June 20, 2017: Pre-order in-game items distribution begins
Tuesday, June 20, 2017: Full game registration codes can be redeemed
Friday, June 23, 2017 at 23:59 (Per Region): Early access ends

[ExKage]

Heavensward prelim patch notes were -posted- 7 days before the launch. They'll put it up before maintenance even starts and before the patch note reading

[Evergrey]

From http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...b4bb84c5dcc63c

Upcoming Schedule:

Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:00 (BST) / 09:00 (GMT): All Worlds Maintenance (24 Hours)
Friday June 16, 2017 at 05:00 (BST) / 04:00 (GMT): Stormblood patch note reading
Friday, June 16, 2017 at 10:00 (BST) / 09:00 (GMT): Early access begins
Friday, June 16, 2017: PlayStation®3 service ends
Tuesday, June 20, 2017: FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood launches
Tuesday, June 20, 2017: Pre-order in-game items distribution begins
Tuesday, June 20, 2017: Full game registration codes can be redeemed
Friday, June 23, 2017 at 23:59 (Per Region): Early access ends

Maybe they'll put it up on the Lodestone but will also read it later on.
Especially since I believe most people that are going to jump into the Pre-Release on the 16th want to read it beforehand.

[Dement]

They posed the Preliminary Patch Notes on Tuesday for Heavensward and then did the reading on Wednesday or Thursday iirc.

[Vespar]

Maybe they'll put it up on the Lodestone but will also read it later on.
Especially since I believe most people that are going to jump into the Pre-Release on the 16th want to read it beforehand.

Thats what they usually do. Prelim usually comes out a few days early then they do a patch note reading later on.

[Aramina]

To the dev team: Can you please give us the patch notes for Stormblood before you start the maintenance at the Lodestone? Those notes are not available for reading during Lodestone maintenance. I want to play the game instead of reading after early access begins.

Do you know something we don't? Because patch notes for HW were available pre-maintenance.

edit: The reading of the patch notes is just that... them reading them. They are available for us to read ourselves a good bit before that.

[Yamimarik]

Please do not spread misinformation. You absolutely can read patch notes during Lodestone maintenance. You don't have access to the full Lodestone site. Even in 3.55 we still had the patch notes read-able from the Lodestone site while the Lodestone itself was in maintenance.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

3.0 Prelims were available 3 days before early access started. 16, vs the 19th, and launch was the 23rd. if they keep to that, we will get prelims today.