Live letter fail

[Baxter]

Should've spammed twitter with those questions. No use crying now.

Ah. Nice response. No one was crying as I've stated it was exactly what I expected it to be. I was merely agreeing with the OP that 1.2 topic was clearly dodged. But just a post ago you said all of that was in the live letter.

[normalforce]

Ah. Nice response. No one was crying as I've stated it was exactly what I expected it to be. I was merely agreeing with the OP that 1.2 topic was clearly dodged. But just a post ago you said all of that was in the live letter.

Don't know why Yoshi would have talked about 1.2, I don't think he wasn't part of the team at that time. Now 1.20 is another matter...

[Sephrick]

Don't know why Yoshi would have talked about 1.2, I don't think he wasn't part of the team at that time. Now 1.20 is another matter...

It's the same thing.

1.2 = 1.20

1.2 /= 1.02

[normalforce]

It's the same thing.

1.2 = 1.20

1.2 /= 1.02

Only to the ignorant. 1.2 reads major version 1, minor version 2. 1.20 reads major version 1, minor version 20. It has nothing to do with the decimal system you learned in math.

Regardless, I think the live letter worked out as well as could be expected when questions are randomly picked from the twitter feed. I would have preferred a normal, not-so-live, letter from the producer though.

[Delsus]

Only to the ignorant. 1.2 reads major version 1, minor version 2. 1.20 reads major version 1, minor version 20. It has nothing to do with the decimal system you learned in math.

Regardless, I think the live letter worked out as well as could be expected when questions are randomly picked from the twitter feed. I would have preferred a normal, not-so-live, letter from the producer though.

So what about the fact that we havent had 20 patches yet? therefore its not minor version 20, also what about devs that go from 1.20, straight to 1.30, when there havent been 10 patches, also when this game started with these patches was 1.15, and sure as hell there werent 15 patches before then.

You logic is completly wrong in this matter.

[normalforce]

So what about the fact that we havent had 20 patches yet? therefore its not minor version 20, also what about devs that go from 1.20, straight to 1.30, when there havent been 10 patches, also when this game started with these patches was 1.15, and sure as hell there werent 15 patches before then.

You logic is completly wrong in this matter.

February 2nd patch 1.15a was released. This was the earliest reference I could find for them using version numbers. Prior to that they were just referenced as "version updates".

But, lo and behold, how many version updates were there? Why don't you count with me?

• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Sep. 23) - One
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Sep. 30) - Two
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 8) - Three
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 15) - Four
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 22) - Five
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 28) - Six
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Nov. 25) - Seven
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Nov. 30) - Eight
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 03) - Nine, ah ha ha ha
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 06) - Ten
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 15) - Eleven
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 21) - Twelve
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Jan. 12) - Thirteen
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Jan. 18) - Fourteen

Good day, sir.

[Delsus]

February 2nd patch 1.15a was released. This was the earliest reference I could find for them using version numbers. Prior to that they were just referenced as "version updates".

But, lo and behold, how many version updates were there? Why don't you count with me?

• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Sep. 23) - One
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Sep. 30) - Two
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 8) - Three
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 15) - Four
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 22) - Five
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 28) - Six
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Nov. 25) - Seven
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Nov. 30) - Eight
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 03) - Nine, ah ha ha ha
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 06) - Ten
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 15) - Eleven
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Dec. 21) - Twelve
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Jan. 12) - Thirteen
• FINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Jan. 18) - Fourteen

Good day, sir.

And some of those were similar to the smaller patches like 1.15a, 1.16a etc, ie bug fixes and preperation for a large update, so I would say for what would be actual numbered patches atleast half that number.

Also if 1.15a was the ealiest patch version you could find then what happened to 1.15, The Garleans stole it?

[Sephrick]

Only to the ignorant. 1.2 reads major version 1, minor version 2. 1.20 reads major version 1, minor version 20. It has nothing to do with the decimal system you learned in math.

As a journalist and, moreso, an editor, I can sit here and rage all day about the lack of grammar and punctuation rampant on this and any online forum. But just like with the 1.2 thing, I choose to let it go as long as the implied meaning is understood.

We don't know SE's internal conventions with describing the version number. For all we know they could have said major 1 minor 1 sub 9 or something. Which would make major 1 minor 2 correct. We'll never know because we didn't see this naming convention back when it was either 1.2 or 1.02.

Whatever you call it, though. Yoshi didn't talk about it.