Letter from the Producer, XXIV (01/30/2012)

[KairiSgheart]

Playing the game since launch to now, i can still remember how ffxiv was at launch day with all the problems, and now fast forward to this point. So many nice changes have happen, and am looking forward to this patch and 2.0. In the mean time, the delay allow me focus more on studies and projects :P. exams would finish by then, and then its time to explore 1.21 =x. In the mean time, will have some time do events and such with shell after exams and also play ff13-2 till patch .

[Searious]

I'm not so sad the patch got delayed. I sounds like it might be worth the wait. I'm pretty excited.

[Catapult]

This is the sort of "Golden Patch" we seem to have been waiting for. Things seem to be reaching a climax in terms of updates.

I can hold out another month easy enough. As long as I get it before my birthday (March 19th).

[Phe]

okay new time schedule:
1.21 march
1.22 may
1.23 august

besides really nice stuff there.

[KumaAkuma]

Heh another major WoW feature. Every patch seems to get one!

Good Letter tho (>°°)b

[Rizon]

Umm, seriously? They say the patch will be delayed by about 2 weeks, and you think they should write a 'new and realistic timeline' for upcoming patches? They are overly optimistic?

It's 2 weeks of a delay. Not a couple months. Calm down. He also said this doesn't affect 2.0's release schedule either. And I'd also say they do give us very periodic information, and browsing comments here, it looks like the players are pretty understanding.

I thought this would be a reasonable suggestion based upon observation. I have been reading all the threads from players complaining about delays and lack of timely information prior to today's postings. Todays postings prove my point, players are happy when they are kept in the loop. Every date given us has been delayed by approximately 1 month. I fully understand the reassoning behind it. The Dev team would rather take the time to produce a quality product and I applaud that. All I was saying is that Yoshi-P should have a better idea as to how things are progressing and might want/need to revise his timetable and let us know. If everything else is on schedule then let us know. Also I never suggested that the release date for Ver2.0 was in Jeopardy. What I meant to say was the Ver1.23 and its accompaning letter patches could run into the timeframe SE gave for distributing the Ver2.0 Client to those of use who had already purchased the game. Both are major undertakings. Again I thought this was a reasonable suggestion, guess I was wrong. My apologies

[Mug]

Again, I don't understand why they give themselves so little time to begin with, seeing as every patch gets delayed. It doesn't make any sense to make the same mistake over and over. Also when they're "pushing hard" for something, it usually means another delay will happen. Kudos to Yoshida for not waiting until the very last minute to tell us, though.

On the bright side, it should give me enough time to get all battle classes to 50.

Overall, it looks like a great patch, though. Shame about Hamlet Defense being delayed, but I'm just happy it wasn't the dungeons that got delayed. And I'm fairly sure the feature Bayohne was referring to was the cutscene thing.

[AdvancedWind]

>Guardian Aspect abolished.

LOL PATCH 1.21

[HokSeven]

They might delay those patches, but like he said, that won't affect 2.0 and it shouldn't. Something with that magnitude have a release date. not only that, but a trailer and PS3 release date that most probably be announced at E3.

Yes, some games do push back an official release date, but never more than 2 weeks.

Aside from that, like I said before, level 50 dungeon people, 50 not 45.... hope it's epic. Oh and one more thing, no running while casting (bye bye dzamel fast runs, better get it out of the way before the update)

[Catapult]

Oh and one more thing, no running while casting (bye bye dzamel fast runs, better get it out of the way before the update)

Blizzara!