The patch notes for SB will not be available until Lodestone maintenance ends

[Aramina]

To the dev team: Can you please give us the patch notes for Stormblood before you start the maintenance at the Lodestone? Those notes are not available for reading during Lodestone maintenance. I want to play the game instead of reading after early access begins.

Do you know something we don't? Because patch notes for HW were available pre-maintenance.

edit: The reading of the patch notes is just that... them reading them. They are available for us to read ourselves a good bit before that.

[Yamimarik]

Please do not spread misinformation. You absolutely can read patch notes during Lodestone maintenance. You don't have access to the full Lodestone site. Even in 3.55 we still had the patch notes read-able from the Lodestone site while the Lodestone itself was in maintenance.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

3.0 Prelims were available 3 days before early access started. 16, vs the 19th, and launch was the 23rd. if they keep to that, we will get prelims today.

[FaileExperiment]

So they'll make the patch notes available to read. Then there's a separate... reading of the patch notes? In audio or video form? What's that for? I must be missing something.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

So they'll make the patch notes available to read. Then there's a separate... reading of the patch notes? In audio or video form? What's that for? I must be missing something.

Its an excitement builder, and another way for them to interact with the playerbase.

[Evergrey]

So they'll make the patch notes available to read. Then there's a separate... reading of the patch notes? In audio or video form? What's that for? I must be missing something.

Preliminary notes tend to leave out some information while the full notes got most of those included.

Atleast that's how I remember it.

[Aramina]

Preliminary notes tend to leave out some information while the full notes got most of those included.

Atleast that's how I remember it.

Yeah, they tend to leave out exact crafting/gathering information in the preliminaries (for good reason, lol). Probably other stuff too, but DoL/DoH things are what I am most interested in.

[ExKage]

To further reiterate for the OP misunderstanding:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...6367caeac914b0

This is when Lodestone Maintenance occurred during All Worlds Maintenance AND Patch Notes reading right before early access.

Also note, "* News and Topics on The Lodestone will still be available for viewing."