Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
your a little defensive. He never said hubs would be in place by 1.18, he said its coming soon. I understand they wanted to do the AA video, but i think people would have enjoyed the dungeon video. He goes out of his way to say the priority of 1.18 is the implementation of AA, he also mentions dungeons, and it taking more time. I just think its a little optimistic to think there will be much other content besides what they actually said will be in place in 1.18. It could well have hubs, but there is no text that says hubs is planned for 1.18, and there is text saying that AA is the focus of 1.18 and that they still have to work on one of the dungeons, so that much is likely.
Defensive? No. Frustrated? Maybe. My post wasn't targeted at you by any means, I just used your post as a jumping on point to the conversation. The point I was trying to make is that Yoshi often gives us a "progress" report letter where he focuses on one main item, just like he did with the AF gear letter. It's just how he operates, yet people are flabbergasted when he gives us a letter just on AA.

And you are right, he never stated exclusively that quest hubs were going in 1.18, but the following statement from letter IX says:

"From top to bottom, those are encampments in the Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, and Ul'dah regions. In this way, we’re going to gradually increase the number of public areas with quest hubs. We also have some beast tribe versions in the works, but it’s looking like those will have to wait until 1.19."

That seems to indicate that the 4 major hubs will go live in 1.18 with the beast tribe hubs going live in 1.19.