Bad communication

[silentwindfr]

i think people miss the point of a preliminary patch up... they are patch notes announcing change without revealing stuff that will break the economy of the game.
now i will ask this, what the point of a prelim patch note while the downtime that add the patch? don't normally while this time you normally get the patch notes, since when the server will be up....you will spend it to play, not read a patch notes.

for me more than crying about the fact that we didn't get the prelim patch note earlier.... it's more why do we get one now? i means normally it's the day we must get the patch note, we do have 24 hours of downtime... it's the best moment for people to soak up most of the info from it. why hide the data about the sam/rdm skill? or the few stuff they have hidden that have no point to hide them, since we will get them tomorrow.

i will be like most people... play the game and will not read the whole patch note, because....well i pay for play the game more than read patch notes.

then on this point the op is right, the communication about stormblood patch notes (at least) is bad.

[Jeycht]

I don't see any problem with the communication.
If journalist can do the job this is with what SE give as information. So ... how they do better than what SE already give?
Btw, the prelim patch can happen now, 1week before, 1month, that's doesn't do any difference to me. You still have all info before release. (don't forget the real release is the 20 not 16)
If you liked FF before you'll probably like it after. The game is mostly the same, with new zone etc, but mechanics are the same, tome system blabla, I'm a bit confuse about that point of view.

[Khankra]

You can Fanboy SE there as much as you like but he has a point, the communication this time was just not good, its not about game elements alone even on informations about the head start etc, i mean i wouldt have killed them to atleast say how much to download, when can we start to download etc etc.
But yeah its pointless to open threads in this forum, in the end its always the same everything is fine and you are bad for asking/speaking about it.

[Jib]

This community sometimes (many) likes to embody this expression ... "give them a finger they want/DEMAND the whole hand" ...

Let the game come out, they explained/shown enough ... if it sucks we will see.. but the amount of drama recently i have read all around...

/disappointedface

[Greeley]

If you think Square's communication is bad, you have not been following how silent Blizzard is to their player base. Coming from WoW, I'm overwhelmed with how chatty and nice and social the devs (and players, for that matter) in this game are. Be thankful that it's as good as it is!

I just had to triple this. You really don't know how good you have it. Coming from a game like WoW, this game's developers have great communication. It's one of it's shining qualities to me. I don't see any issue personally with them releasing notes the day before.