Information on 1.21 Next week?

[Vackashken]

Thats crazy talk! What about all the lore we've had!

I apologize... the year and a half wait sometimes eats at my soul and I say crazy things!

Not trying to justify anything...

Anyways...this should be one of the last major system change patches. They have to get through all the nuts and bolts before they can really get down to content. 1.22 and 1.23 should start having more content. The roadmap doesn't even list patches before 2.0. I'm sure from 1.23 till 2.0 it'll all be story content.

Remember we got Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary and Tokyo Game Show which I suspect SE will use those two events to push out major things for FFXIV ushering in the coming of 2.0.

The fact of the matter is they handled this all wrong. People need to feel hype for this patch. They could have spent all this time releasing tidbits of teasers. They could have released a job video a week, 30 seconds long hyping said job. Or to stretch it out show a WS a week from various jobs (so as not to spoil them all). They could have released a bit of eye candy every so often to keep people excited. Their marketing is terrible. If this patch is so enormousness and grand then there is no reason -- whatsoever -- for them to have held their cards so close to their chest for this amount of time.

The reality is people are tired - which is 100 percent understandable regardless of how many droves of White Knights try to joust that fact down. They handled it wrong. As aforementioned if they have so much to bring to the table this time a slow build up of it, through various forms of information that is more tangible, is how it should have been handled. FFS, even a company that doesn't do MMOs gets it...

When ACM was delayed (Aliens: Colonial Marines) they said sorry guys, but check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=cMhpFpJSwgA

Now what did it do when people saw that video? They said, damn this sucks (that it was delayed) but got hyped up for the video and it started a lot of positive discussions cause they had something universally acceptable to jaw over. Eye candy.