To be honest my main concern is for Patch 1.18 as Yoshi stated in his letter:
but given the tremendous size of the patch
That is what I am most worried about, 300 odd MB can take long enough 1.18 could well end up being 1GB+ and then lets not forget how they manage there updates so 1.18a, 1.18b and so on will require us to re-download 1.18 in full each time even if the actual update is only a few MB worth of tweeks.

I really hope they have some sort of fix for the patcher before then otherwise it 1.18 could be a nightmare with the patcher in it's current state.