companion duration

[SigSauer]

"The duration of summoned companions can now be extended to 60 mins with the use of extra Gysahl Greens."

English is hard!!!

I was wondering when would you show up in this thread. And by you, I don't mean you personally, but the typical "smart guy" who would show up with a "smart" remark just to make himself look cool but in reality, is condescending and irrelevant.

Just to enlighten you a bit, this thread was started 3 days ago, when the original patch notes said "The active duration of companions summoned with Gysahl Greens has been increased from 30 to 60 minutes". That has been changed and it now reads "The active duration of companions summoned can now be increased up to a maximum of 60 minutes using Gysahl Greens."

My suggestion to you, "smart guy", is that before you make yourself look like a fool, get your facts straight.


Edit: Here are my facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ojsK8Btko fast forward to 14:40 in the video and you'll see what the original change to gyshal greens said before it was fixed in the patch notes.

[JCharms]

I was wondering when would you show up in this thread. And by you, I don't mean you personally, but the typical "smart guy" who would show up with a "smart" remark just to make himself look cool but in reality, is condescending and irrelevant.

Just to enlighten you a bit, this thread was started 3 days ago, when the original patch notes said "The active duration of companions summoned with Gysahl Greens has been increased from 30 to 60 minutes". That has been changed and it now reads "The active duration of companions summoned can now be increased up to a maximum of 60 minutes using Gysahl Greens."

My suggestion to you, "smart guy", is that before you make yourself look like a fool, get your facts straight.


Edit: Here are my facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ojsK8Btko fast forward to 14:40 in the video and you'll see what the original change to gyshal greens said before it was fixed in the patch notes.

Considering this has been going on since the game released, the either awful localisation or poor descriptions to start with(maybe a bit of both), I think my take still stands.

[Vidu]

Considering this has been going on since the game released, the either awful localisation or poor descriptions to start with(maybe a bit of both), I think my take still stands.

If poor description or localisations are bothering you (or anyone else), I can only advice you to leave a suggestion in the localisation section of the forum. I did so a few times in the german forum - both in regards to simple typos and to actual descriptions that I considerd unclear and most of these things got fixed (and those that didnt were kinda ambiguous to begin with).
Given the massive amount of text they're dealing with here - not only in one, but four languages, that need translating and checking - I can see how something minor like a note about our companion in the prelimenary patchnotes can fall through the cracks quite easly.
Personally, I dont see a real added value to them carefully proof-read something like patch notes - its really not the end of the world...

And comments like:

English is hard!!!

Dont make you look smart in this context but more like a rather... unsympathetic person. If something as minor and silly as an item-description isnt 100% accurate because who ever is translating is has only an excel-sheet and little context, thats totally forgiveable - leave a suggestion to change it in the localisations forum and they most likely will.

English might not be hard - videogame translation certainly is.

[Jojoya]

I was wondering when would you show up in this thread. And by you, I don't mean you personally, but the typical "smart guy" who would show up with a "smart" remark just to make himself look cool but in reality, is condescending and irrelevant.

Just to enlighten you a bit, this thread was started 3 days ago, when the original patch notes said "The active duration of companions summoned with Gysahl Greens has been increased from 30 to 60 minutes". That has been changed and it now reads "The active duration of companions summoned can now be increased up to a maximum of 60 minutes using Gysahl Greens."

My suggestion to you, "smart guy", is that before you make yourself look like a fool, get your facts straight.


Edit: Here are my facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ojsK8Btko fast forward to 14:40 in the video and you'll see what the original change to gyshal greens said before it was fixed in the patch notes.

Yet the in-game tooltip was correct from the first day of the patch for those who bothered to read it.

I, too, was confused when I first summoned my chocobo out of habit on patch day after only having read the patch notes. But when I looked at Summon action on the chocobo submenu, I saw:



So I had my answer within 30 seconds of summoning my chocobo. Considering the majority of players never read patch notes or at best skim them for targeted highlights, I'm glad they got it right where it counts from the start.

[SigSauer]

Yet the in-game tooltip was correct from the first day of the patch for those who bothered to read it.

So I had my answer within 30 seconds of summoning my chocobo.

Good for you. You seem to be a very thorough person and more power to you.

In my case, I don't need to be thorough with insignificant things like this, so I don't need to double check with other sources of information (in-game or outside of the game) when the patch notes provide all the information I need. The fact that the text for this was changed confirms what the OP stated: that it was misleading.

[Jojoya]

Good for you. You seem to be a very thorough person and more power to you.

In my case, I don't need to be thorough with insignificant things like this, so I don't need to double check with other sources of information (in-game or outside of the game) when the patch notes provide all the information I need. The fact that the text for this was changed confirms what the OP stated: that it was misleading.

Seems like it's not so insignificant to you if you have to come to forums to complain.

Patch notes have never been 100% complete and 100% accurate in any MMO I've ever played. You should never rely on them alone. Guess you're learning something from this insignificant occurrence.

[SigSauer]

Seems like it's not so insignificant to you if you have to come to forums to complain.

Patch notes have never been 100% complete and 100% accurate in any MMO I've ever played. You should never rely on them alone. Guess you're learning something from this insignificant occurrence.

Since you are arguing with me just for the sake of arguing, I'll take my leave here, not before I state the following: I didn't come here to complain. I read the OP's post, I agreed with what he said to a certain extent (one of my previous posts mentioned that I found the text in the patch notes misleading but I also said that it was not important, not relevant and not game breaking). In other words, my argument was not about the mechanics of the change but rather the misleading information that confused some players (like the OP). I presented evidence that made my case crystal clear. However, since this is the Internet, I was expecting people like you and that other guy who made the "English is hard" smart remark so instead of getting involved in a stupid argument, I will conclude my participation in this thread now. Bye.