Letter from the Producer, XXIV (01/30/2012)

[Rizon]

Overall a lot of good things in this patch. Some things that were not expected i.e. cutscene rewiew. Only thing that appears to be pushed back is the Hamlet Defense. Might be worth waiting for if it is as massive as Yoshi-P suggests. Only real drawback is now it looks like Ver1.23 probably won't happen til just before the distribution of Ver2.0 scheduled for the last quarter of 2012. Kind of pushing it. Just hoping there is no delay in in Ver2.0s release date because of it. Only thing not mentioned at all was how they were going to handle the boat loads of Guild Marks people have amassed. Thought the were going to do something about it this patch, could be wrong.

[Urthdigger]

* Cutscene replay. *GASP*

So awesome! /)^3^(\

[MicahZerrshia]

yay for lots of content, choco gear and HOUSING

boo for delay but at least feb is the shortest month ^^

[Darte]

Thank you devs for cutscene replay. Thank you for not making it as backwards as it was in FFXI (where you have to travel to the zone where cutscene happened to replay it).

[Rizon]

I think that Yoshi-P would be best served if he provided us with a new and realistic timeline for upcoming events. It has become quite obvious that the current line was overly optimistic. I am sure that players will be more understanding if they being given peoriodic updates with accurate information. Just a suggestion.

[Kyra]

Now this letter is more like it!! lots to look forward to. Replaying cutscenes in our own residences sounds great! and omg TWO level 50 instances. Awesomeness. Glad for the delay gives me time to finish my last few classes to 50 and get my last crown and play a bit more of skyrim.

[Garlen]

I think that Yoshi-P would be best served if he provided us with a new and realistic timeline for upcoming events. It has become quite obvious that the current line was overly optimistic. I am sure that players will be more understanding if they being given peoriodic updates with accurate information. Just a suggestion.

Umm, seriously? They say the patch will be delayed by about 2 weeks, and you think they should write a 'new and realistic timeline' for upcoming patches? They are overly optimistic?

It's 2 weeks of a delay. Not a couple months. Calm down. He also said this doesn't affect 2.0's release schedule either. And I'd also say they do give us very periodic information, and browsing comments here, it looks like the players are pretty understanding.

[Rane]

Thank you devs for cutscene replay. Thank you for not making it as backwards as it was in FFXI (where you have to travel to the zone where cutscene happened to replay it).

Amen! I rarely replayed cutscenes in XI because I didn't know where to go to replay them half of the time. Plus, the various cutscenes for a mission were often strewn out across multiple locations.

Honestly, I didn't expect cutscene replay to make it in until 2.0. Thank you, dev team!

I'm disappointed about the hamlet defense delay, though. I was really looking forward to the introduction of large-scale PVE, and was hoping that it would also be a good way to farm company seals. But I guess the development team bit off a little more than they could chew trying to include hamlet defense in 1.21 along with everything else. This really does seem like a massive patch! Anyway, every cloud has a silver lining: patch 1.22 is going to end up feeling more substantial now that it's going to hit alongside hamlet defense.

Like many others, I'm not surprised by the delay in 1.21. Now at least we have the official word on what's up. The elongated timeline for the server merge stings a little more, though: Palamecia has been really lonely of late. Again, I guess it's not surprising, but somehow I had hoped the merge would be coming sooner rather than later. I'd really like to put the first "M" back in my MMO.

With that said, 1.21 sounds great, and I'm really looking forward to it. To me, every patch since 1.18 has been a game changer in one way or another, and this one looks to be the most important one yet.

[Koku]

Looks very promising. Hope the job story lines are epic.

[Ruri]

end of February... so in SE universe March 12th

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