Minor patch? Major patch? How to tell?

[Pellegri]

It's nice that you have all this content lined up for 2.1, but at current the only people who will still be around to enjoy it are bots, people who already bought x months of subscription before realizing it, or people who are too jaded to care.

They've said multiple times they learned from other mmos when re-creating this one, well they didn't learn from one of the biggest patch failures for the biggest mmo. WoW patch 4.1(troll dungeon remakes), it took 5 months for this patch to come out 3 of which were after the ptr went up, they kept adding more and more pushing the patch back more and more and for what? 2 rehashed dungeons and a bunch of qol fixes that could have been done in smaller patches. You cannot keep doing that especially with a "new"(technically) mmo, so many of these changes that are being added on to this patch should have been out already because many of the people who wanted those issues fixed will have left already making the fixes for nothing.

A lot of the changes and additions in this patch are nice, however most of them should have been there either at launch or soon after. QoL issues that are not adding new content should be done in smaller patches, not crammed into big ones just because devs don't want to push them out over time.

We get it the game had a successful launch, how about keeping it that way and actually doing something sooner rather than later for a lot of the issues. Mmos don't stay successful for very long unless you keep the people paying happy, and at the moment there are a lot of pissed off people because nothing is being done inbetween patches 2.0 and 2.1. Do not make people wait another month or more for this patch.

[Felis]

so the minor patches will be 2.11, 2.12, 2.13... right?

In 1.0 the minor updates had a, b, c

Like 1.23a, 1.23b and 1.23c

[Dazusu]

many times with software versions
X.YZ

X changes=major update (big update, adds many new things and many bug fix)
y changes=minor update (medium update, add small things and fixes bugs
z change=bug fixes (small update, fixes bugs)

is what i think

What?

major.minor.build.revision is the general scheme used, at least its how we do it at work, some companies prefer to use the date as a version stamp

[Engineer]

I think I might freeze my account til 2.1 comes out if it's months away. I'm not going to waste my sub time waiting.

[Volux]

So where are the patches to fix the glaring issues that this game has had for the past month (and before):

Not emergency enough?

It's nice that you have all this content lined up for 2.1, but at current the only people who will still be around to enjoy it are bots, people who already bought x months of subscription before realizing it, or people who are too jaded to care.

What exactly makes you think they are not working on these as well. They know of these issues and I'm sure have people working and discussing how to fix these issues as well. Just because they are planning new content doesn't mean they are ignoring the old stuff... It's not one guy sitting in a room doing everything. They have teams of people working on different aspects. Just be patient, Eorzea wasn't built in a day...

[MisterChubu]

I think I might freeze my account til 2.1 comes out if it's months away. I'm not going to waste my sub time waiting.

Im not sure if you were just rushing all those level 50's or what but you obviously did something to wrong. With all those jobs at 50 it's cool and all but you haven't "beaten" the game yet. Go finish coil, help fc mates finish endgame, go take slick screenshots of the world, socialize, etc. This is an mmo, there are lots of things to do after you cap so many jobs, but if you think lvl 50 on several jobs is beating the game i guess un-sub and cya in a few months.

oh and it looks like you still need to finish out your first set of endgame armor/jewelry so that's something you can do until the next patch.

[Rex]

so the minor patches will be 2.11, 2.12, 2.13... right?

More like 2.1a, 2.1b, 2.1c...
Or
2.1 ver - date - format

If they're numbered, I would think it'd be like what Reinheart said. Or they'd be 2.1.1, 2.1.2, etc.

From how I'm reading it, I don't think they'll be numbered.

But I'm thinking he's right ^

[ImeXo]

Good to know.

Hope it's REALLY major.

Yea... like put counter measures for botting tools... it's getting really out of hand where they are warping to monsters and killing them for items to monopolize the markets

[Vagrant-0]

be patient

It's nice that they're working on old stuff too... Don't get me wrong. But if they're going to wait till 2.1+ on implementing some sort of meaningful change that prevents these exploits, they will be losing a good deal of customers who have been patient, seen next to nothing happen in a month, and are getting sick of the waiting game and how little has been done.

The game is good, the world is rich, but the service stinks. I'd prefer those in charge know that the reason why many people will not be renewing their memberships is not because of any problem with the game, but rather with how they appear to be handling those issues which severely threaten the quality of that experience.

[ArkhamNative]

OK, update:

October 11, 2013 5:44 AM
[Maintenance] All Worlds Maintenance (Oct. 14)
At the following time, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds that goes along with the patch 2.05 HotFixes. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will be unavailable.

A lot of software companies use "false decimals" to number versions. That is, "2.1" indicates 2 separate numbers, not a single value of 2+(1/10). So 2.1 comes after 2.0, but 2.10 is "two-point-ten", is different than 2.1 and comes after 2.9.

Here it looks like SE is using actual fractions with <0.1 indicating a fix rather than a minor version. So 2.0 < 2.05 < 2.1. That should lead to hot fixes on 2.1 being numbered something like 2.11 rather than 2.1a, but like I said before, there's no actual rules in software version numbering. We'll know what the next version number is only when SE announces it.