Patch date

[Zanfire]

i hope its not soon, mainly because of the tiny amount of things they showed us on the loadstone...battle reform, 2 raids and leves turned into solo content...thats about it. They tend to show a good chunk of what the patch is (at least the major stuff) so if its soon, then we are getting very little, nothing big enough to get anyone back playing it...thats for sure.

[zoekwon]

sooner the better for me. nothing to do right now.

[slipmac]

I realy hope its this week. I think with just auto-attack i could wait a long time for 1.19 and so on.
Ive hated the current system since beta.

[Xeak]

I may be one of the few that actually likes the current battle system ... I know I've seen a few posters that share my opinion. It's just sad that it wasn't perfected. Because people rather use what they're used to (auto-attack), the dev team just decided to scrap it because no one was optimistic of the system getting better. That's how I feel anyway. Maybe implementing an auto-attack toggle while keeping the stamina bar. So the toggle will continuously spam your regular attack until you execute another command. I think that would've been a better solution than having to rework the whole mechanics. But auto-attack is on its way so no use praying for it now ^.^;

[SniperRifle]

SE has alot riding on this patch. For many players this patch is the deciding factor on whether they stay or go. They're probably quadruple checking everything so 18a,b, and c aren't even necessary (bug fixes) and they can just hop to 1.19 next month.

[Balbanes]

Prediction: August

Based on the following dev post, posted today on french forums:



Translation:

I still cannot give you a specific date for 1.18. I can only confirm that IF everything goes well, it will be launched this month.

Je suis un panda triste...

[Acydcross]

Je suis un panda triste...

What he said.

[Rowyne]

Je suis un panda triste...

Quel dommage!

[Seif]

iirc, this patch also introduces the grand company content, right? so, hopefully, it gives us way more than just some dungeons.

This is what the long development time does to the players. We all want this patch to be stock-full of content because of the amount of time it's been in the works.

They've already hyped this patch more than anything so far but based on their info I think we can expect a couple of company related quests like in the first company quest- patch and then wait another 2 months for the next bits to trickle in.

A smart player would just put XIV on hold until patch 1.3 but I happen to be on my vacation and just can't help checking out how this thing is going to turn out.

I try too keep my expectations low but they've been working on this patch forever. If it really is just a battle system tweak (I wouldn't call automating one step a complete overhaul btw) and few dungeons I know I'll be a bit disappointed because I keep hoping for them to surprise me somehow. Given their track record of much hype for nothing I'd say a wise player would know better by know than to expect them to walk the walk.

[Ventus]

This is what the long development time does to the players. We all want this patch to be stock-full of content because of the amount of time it's been in the works.

They've already hyped this patch more than anything so far but based on their info I think we can expect a couple of company related quests like in the first company quest- patch and then wait another 2 months for the next bits to trickle in.

A smart player would just put XIV on hold until patch 1.3 but I happen to be on my vacation and just can't help checking out how this thing is going to turn out.

I try too keep my expectations low but they've been working on this patch forever. If it really is just a battle system tweak (I wouldn't call automating one step a complete overhaul btw) and few dungeons I know I'll be a bit disappointed because I keep hoping for them to surprise me somehow. Given their track record of much hype for nothing I'd say a wise player would know better by know than to expect them to walk the walk.

Yeah I agree with what you're saying about putting the game on hold because SE hasn't learned that it's important to keep people held over with at least SOMETHING new to explore with.

This patch does the opposite of what is wise to keep a community of players biting: they are producing a rather insignificant bunch of updates and taking rediculously long to simply do so. Keeping this in mind and the mega multiplayer games coming out like Old Republic and Gears of War 3, it seems this game could be in danger of going out with a wimper.

Too many things are coming out in the next month or two that will completely over shadow the shadow on top of FF14 already. Becoming a bit tiresome to be a FF14 player. Going through the stages of grief.

First is sadness, next is anger, and acceptance is usually the last one. Guess which one I'm at?