Information on 1.21 Next week?

[Colino]

Didn't he say yesterday it would be posted "tomorrow" meaning today?

That was actually Monday, which was early Tuesday morning in Japan. But yeah I'm expecting it any moment now.

[Rowyne]

I'm not exactly going to defend SE for another patch delay, in what has become a long line of patch delays. Especially now after billing has commenced and people are a bit more conscious of timing and monthly fees. I think people have a right to be a little frustrated.

However. Yoshi-P's daily diet of stress, cigarettes, and 3 hours sleep landed him in the hospital with a high fever. While that doesn't make work at the office grind to a halt, I'm sure there were QA issues and other decisions that couldn't go forward without his stamp of approval. I'm betting that did contribute to the delay of what will be FFXIV's biggest patch to date.

Most important is this:

With each patch, we balance the schedule along with the quality and volume of the patch and then decide on the specifications following that. However, we prioritized quality and volume and we are now reflecting on the lack of foresight that the patch would be pushed back as a result. In the future I don’t want the same mistakes to happen again as I believe we’ve all learned a lot from this (for the rest of my life as long as I am doing this line of work), and I make an effort to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Quality should always be prioritized, even if it means a delay. I think we can all agree that the game wouldn't be in the state that it's in now if it was allowed another year in development. Rushing your product out the door when it's not ready is the real mistake.

Yes, time is of the essence right now as 2.0 approaches. And SE is obviously a company that has time-management issues. I'm hoping all that Yoshi-P is saying is that they will be more conscious of timing in the future, not that they will prioritize efficiency over quality.

[Colino]

I'm not exactly going to defend SE for another patch delay, in what has become a long line of patch delays. Especially now after billing has commenced and people are a bit more conscious of timing and monthly fees. I think people have a right to be a little frustrated.

However. Yoshi-P's daily diet of stress, cigarettes, and 3 hours sleep landed him in the hospital with a high fever. While that doesn't make work at the office grind to a halt, I'm sure there were QA issues and other decisions that couldn't go forward without his stamp of approval. I'm betting that did contribute to the delay of what will be FFXIV's biggest patch to date.

Most important is this:



Quality should always be prioritized, even if it means a delay. I think we can all agree that the game wouldn't be in the state that it's in now if it was allowed another year in development. Rushing your product out the door when it's not ready is the real mistake.

Yes, time is of the essence right now as 2.0 approaches. And SE is obviously a company that has time-management issues. I'm hoping all that Yoshi-P is saying is that they will be more conscious of timing in the future, not that they will prioritize efficiency over quality.

No sane person is complaining about the delay, we're aware of all of that stuff. What we definitely have a right to complain about is the nigh absurd lack of information.

Yeah the weaponskill video was alright (although we'd already seen some of them) but honestly it's not what a lot of us want... We want patch notes, numbers, tangible information...

When someone tells you to you'll get something "tomorrow", do you expect to wait 3 days for it? I don't.

[Holyomen]

If I can see a trailer to The Hobbit 2 years before the release, would I be asking too much to see a video of 1.21 content 2 weeks before the release?

[Colino]

If I can see a trailer to The Hobbit 2 years before the release, would I be asking too much to see a video of 1.21 content 2 weeks before the release?

In fairness, that trailer alone probably costs as much to produce as this entire game... lol

[FlynnRider]

I will agree that most of us aren't mad that the patch is delayed, just a bit upset that we were left in the dark and without any sort of news or patch notes for over a week. Glad to see he is making an effort for this to not happen again. Go Yoshi-P!

[HiirNoivl]

That was actually Monday, which was early Tuesday morning in Japan. But yeah I'm expecting it any moment now.

Yoshi runs on Tokyo Jupiter time... so when he said "tomorrow" he meant 6 days from time of post.

[Skinwalker]

Maybe he send the letter by ship to the translation team :x

[Shyd]

Yoshi runs on Tokyo Jupiter time... so when he said "tomorrow" he meant 6 days from time of post.

I see what you did there. ^.^; One of my favorite animes!

[Rydin]

900

can't wait to see the letter