Patch 1.20 Delay ?

[neizero]

According to the roadmap to 2.0, patch 1.20 should be released, I quote, "Late November to Early December"

If the patch was to be released late nov/early december, you'd think that by now all the content would be pretty much finalised and they would be in the testing/fixing stage. However, from the information we got so far, it feels like the 1.20 content is still very much under develpoment.

The new skills information for instance felt rushed and incomplete, not even names for the abilities, missing traits, probably missing spells.

We still have 0 info on the moogle fight and 0 info on player seach/AH, the other "stars" of the patch

I hope to be wrong, but I can't see this patch happening before mid-December if lucky, unless they've just been holding back a lot of information...

Ultimately I don't care about when they release 1.20 or even about its contents, I'm happy to play whatever they give us, but I do care about the impact his can have on the release date of 2.0. Specially when they are asking us to pay a subcription fee until then, I am choosing to pay it on the basis that next October I should have the finished game, I really don't want to see that pushed back to mid-2013

/rant

[Endemerrin]

They've always been somewhat vague on content up until patch notes are finalized and released, and for good reason. Things can change last minute. Sometimes we get a bit more information, but just because they're holding back doesn't always mean they're behind schedule.

I think the fact that we've been getting a bunch of posts on the lodestone home page as of late is a positive sign that we'll see a release date soon.

[Sephrick]

SE notoriously keeps a tight lip on patch content until day of. In the early days of XI, they didn't even give much information then.

For example, if we were in the early days of XI right now we never would have gotten the list of class reforms. And when 1.20 dropped, the notes would say only "Class abilities have been changed."

Until they state otherwise, they're still on for that time frame, though I'd naturally expect them to fringe on the later portion of "early December" anyway. But 1.20 is different than other patches as they'd like to start charging subs as soon as possible afterward. So the sooner they release it, the sooner they may start subs.

[Betelgeuzah]

The new skills information for instance felt rushed and incomplete, not even names for the abilities, missing traits, probably missing spells.

The exact specifics are under tweaking, but the general direction is long complete.

Thinking up names and tweaking specifics isn't exactly the most resource-taxing job.

[KumaAkuma]

patches always had delay...

[vax]

I bet 1.20 will be on mid december.

[Mug]

Yeah, these patches always get delayed. My guess is around December 20th.

[Delsus]

Here we go again, it comes up every patch "we havent got info about xxx change OMG PATCH WILL BE DELAYED!!!!!"

They could release info about moogle fight on monday, release info about player search tuesday and info about AH on wednesday and patch out on thursday for all we know, probably not but its not impossible. The patch isnt delayed till its delayed.

[Betelgeuzah]

There shouldn't be delays this close to the roadmap's release. They have avoided publishing it before because Yoshida wasn't sure what the team is capable of. After two major patches he felt confident enough to post it, so I will remain confident until we get an official confirmation of a delay.

[Mug]

Here we go again, it comes up every patch "we havent got info about xxx change OMG PATCH WILL BE DELAYED!!!!!"

They could release info about moogle fight on monday, release info about player search tuesday and info about AH on wednesday and patch out on thursday for all we know, probably not but its not impossible. The patch isnt delayed till its delayed.

Of course no one knows for sure yet, but the lack of info is usually a pretty good indicator. It's not like people are basing this on nothing. And judging by SE's track record, patches always tend to get delayed.