Patch date

[Seif]

I guess I'm at anger over the latest news of this patch being delayed yet again.

I don't care how polished the AA is (seriously how can something this basic be so hard to implement?!) delaying the patch is a massive sign of disrespect towards the players.
And YES we ARE paying customers. All of us thought there would be a game to play inside when we handed our money to SE for the copy.

Fans extend their patience by staying for a few more months and SE pays us back by ******* on us yet again. It's a never-ending cycle it seems.

[Jynx]

Fans extend their patience by staying for a few more months and SE pays us back by ******* on us yet again. It's a never-ending cycle it seems.

And yet here you are...waiting to be **** on again apparantly?

Unlike some people I don't pretend to know anything about game design or what the situation for the dev team currently is. What I am is able to say I am willing to wait to see what happens to the game. I may get frustrated from time to time from the long patch times, but if SE pushes me too far I can and will walk away from this game forever.

Others don't seem to have that option and instead opt to rage about issues outside their own control. If SE is testing you so much why don't you at least put the game down and just wait for the patch before playing again. If you just plain think SE is "Shitting on us" then why don't you tell them to bugger off while you stop playing the game.

Vote with your wallet and show them when the subscriptions turn back on that your not there, it will send your message home 1000x clearer than raging on the internets.

*edit*
also saying that SE has 0 respect for the people playing this game has to be the most blind and ignorant thing I have ever heard on these forums.

I'm not white knighting for them but really? What is Yoshida sitting on a cruise boat somehwere reading the forums for lulz? the producer and mutliple staff have appolagized on many occasions and made it very clear they are working extremly hard to get this ship into shape.

They can't post a damn timeline becuase they themselves have no god damn clue how long some of these things will take to do....ugh I'll stop talking now it's going to fall on deaf ears anyhow.

[Viridiana]

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.

No, this is what not having a real "Under Developement" section does. If they actually consolidated wtf was going to be in the next patch into one little lodestone page, we wouldn't engage in half as much guesswork. Instead they spread the info out over hell's half acres. . .

[Zanfire]

^ they seem to still treat the updates like ...well updates (to a working game). When you see sprinkles of info for FFXI, its totally fine, because the game is working great and there is already plenty to do. When your game is a broken mess that needs fixing, you should treat the changes accordingly. Tell us exactly what you plan to get done for the patch right away so no one is hyping crap for nothing and if something goes wrong or can't be finished (they know well before hand when they cant get something done in time) TELL US.

[GabbaGabba]

really, its not SE's fault people overhype and speculate to end up being disappointed.

if they misinformed us by giving us the wrong info or bad info, like not implementing something that was suppose to be implemented, then you can blame SE.

i personally dont care how much information they release on the patch. i'd rather experience the patch for myself then let SE tell us everything that is in the patch

[Mug]

really, its not SE's fault people overhype and speculate to end up being disappointed.

SE have done a perfectly good job of hyping up the patch themselves.

[Seif]

No, this is what not having a real "Under Developement" section does. If they actually consolidated wtf was going to be in the next patch into one little lodestone page, we wouldn't engage in half as much guesswork. Instead they spread the info out over hell's half acres. . .

I agree, you're right about that.
Now people seem to think 1.18 is the holy grail of patches and it seems there's not any content besides the dungeons being shipped with it. I'm not saying 2 dungeons aren't good news they're just nowhere near enough. Pushing back the release of 1.18 also pushes back all the future content updates that follow it in the already too distant future.

[GabbaGabba]

SE have done a perfectly good job of hyping up the patch themselves.

i disagree, i would say they are overextending themselves but i never got the impression that they are making the patch out to be something its not. like a game saving patch thats going to change everyones mind about the game and make them want to come back and play

i feel like SE is more looking forward to the patch then saying OMG this patch is going to be WIN!!

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Just a side note. It might not seem a lot of work for most of you to add auto-attack to the battle system but it does affect pretty much all your abilities. They need to completely rebalance your abilities with proper cooldowns because they are removing the stamina bar, so that each class and action is well balance when compared to one another. It's more than a "simple" band-aid.

Also, they are reworking the battle UI (bars and icons), new animations for abilities and spells (though I think some more will come in further patches), re-designing classes to make them more unique, adjusting enmity algorithm.

So yeah, they are taking a long time doing it, but it's not just "adding" auto-attack and that's it. I'd rather they take longer than release it full of bugs and glitches.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

I don't care how polished the AA is (seriously how can something this basic be so hard to implement?!) delaying the patch is a massive sign of disrespect towards the players.
And YES we ARE paying customers. All of us thought there would be a game to play inside when we handed our money to SE for the copy.

SE doesn't owe you anything, you paid the game, you have been disappointed because it sucked, but that happens when you buy other games as well, sometime they suck and you wish you never bought them, but guess what? that's life, you su** it up and move on.

You are not paying monthly fees to be playing this game so they do not owe you anything. If anything, you owe it to be thankful to them to let you play instead of shuting the servers down while they fix stuff, which would have probably been a better options and would have made things move faster.

Also, they are still in the delays they said they would take, so stop crying and just wait until it's released.