On the subject of patches

[Warlyx]

would love to see a "test server" to test new things coming out ....... kinda like eveyother mmorpg nowadays , players can help , reporting bugs ect

[Betelgeuzah]

would love to see a "test server" to test new things coming out ....... kinda like eveyother mmorpg nowadays , players can help , reporting bugs ect

This isn't realistic given the current state of development. I doubt the game they're working on behind the scenes is even playable, much less testable, as they work on the very core of the engine, servers and game data.

But giving rough outlines ahead of time would be, imo. Do they intend to release materia system in 1.19? Job system too? Are companies intended to be released in 1.18? Ifrit battle?

Yoshida already mentioned that frontier hubs are coming in 1.18 while beastmen hubs will be saved for 1.19, and that the guildleve balancing will go into full swing in 1.18 I bet he can go further than that.

[Felis]

would love to see a "test server" to test new things coming out ....... kinda like eveyother mmorpg nowadays , players can help , reporting bugs ect

It should than be like a closed beta server. Not that everyone play the testserver only to play the new things and not to test them

[Richard]

would love to see a "test server" to test new things coming out ....... kinda like eveyother mmorpg nowadays , players can help , reporting bugs ect

FFXI finally got their Test Server going and I think I remember a quote from either Yoshida or Tanaka about a test server already in the works for XIV. I don't expect it to be anytime soon though. Maybe around PS3 Beta test.