So about the next patch (1.17)

[TheVedis]

I predict we hear something tonight

They have had a habit of posting news about mid week patches on their mondays(our sunday nights)

[SirEdeonX]

Difficult to find news on sunday.. :P

I was expecting to see something too until I remembered today is Sunday T.T

I shouldn't have created a routine to check for news first thing in the morning XD

[Shikaree]

Never expect any news on a weekend.

While the FFXI changes look nice, I wish they were done a long time ago, when I still could hold interest playing. I always wanted to reroll to a Mithra from a Hume (which is one thing I'm glad I could do for FFXIV), but I didn't want to give up the NM drops I spent a lot of time killing myself over for. I feel like FFXI is similar to Pokemon now, it was fun in the beginning but now they've added so much I don't feel like I'm getting into the same game anymore.

I'm hoping we get something Monday morning. Still steamed over the only news we got this last week was enlarged spell effects.

[Akumu]

I'm hoping SE was like "Instead of sending out the info let's just work more and polish up some stuff without interruption."

[Skeeter]

I would definitely like a time line for the Battle and Class system changes at the very least. I haven't and am not going to bother playing until these go live because I will start fresh on a new character. I'm sure I'm not the only one waiting for these core system changes to be put into effect before they try the game again.

[Betelgeuzah]

I would definitely like a time line for the Battle and Class system changes at the very least.

Spring. (= May).

[Isaaru]

I predict we hear something tonight

They have had a habit of posting news about mid week patches on their mondays(our sunday nights)

yeah this sounds about right

[Arcell]

Spring. (= May).

Well I know somewhere, possibly in one of the interviews during March, they said it would be about 2 months before we saw all the combat changes. Taking into account the 2 week downtime (which they may or may not have been working during) I'd give them until the end of June.

[YUGON]

We will have some info next week. If patch 1.17 was delayed around 2 weeks, the next one is the 2nd week. If the patch is not released, then we will have some info, and a release date.

I don't expect battle system changes in this one, but truly in the next one.
We will have some "minor" changes in patch 1.17, plus Easter Egg (that will give us something else to do, while we wait for battle changes).

They need some more time... and we need a little more patience. Is hard, but I think it will compensate the waiting ^^

[Betelgeuzah]

Companies are coming in 1.17. This is a no-brainer. It may be the only substantial addition in the patch, but it is coming.

You can dig up this thread if this isn't the case and I'll eat my virtual hat.