Letter from the Producer VII

[SirEdeonX]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...5685#post65685

First of all, I would like to thank yoshi-p for his time to give us a heads up.

So, 1.17 will be coming in two patches, the first one coming mid-april with a easter event WITH NO BELLS I'm actually excited to see this lol

It also seems the PvE content is coming soon

I was hoping to hear about companies, but it shouldn't take much time now, since they said we would have news just before 1.17 was released.

[Frebaut]

lmao i love the No Bells. So for companies, it doesn't look like were going to get them in the 1.17/1.17a patch. Thats what i took from his letter. But then again it is April first and we could get 100% of it...lol

[Vicious]

patch 1.17 was initially pushed back to mid-April, but after reexamination we’ve decided instead to divide the content and release it across two patches—1.17 and 1.17a.

are you sure its gonna be mid April? looks like it gonna split and i assume the 1st part is gonna be early April while the 2nd part is towards the end of April

[Cairdeas]

BUT I LIKE THE BELLS!

[Kaedan]

Yeah, from the sounds of it, 1.17 will be released early-mid April, and 1.17a will be released in late April.

[Chezen]

Cool, an Easter event.

I'm sorry about Golden Week though.

[Jibe]

I wish they would not talk in such vague terms.

patch 1.17 was initially pushed back to mid-April, but after reexamination we’ve decided instead to divide the content and release it across two patches—1.17 and 1.17a.

A statement like that can mean a couple things:

1) At first they planned to release 1.17 in mid april, now they are splitting and releasing 1.17 right away, and 1.17a later. Basically assuming we will receive content faster this way.

2) They planned to release 1.17 mid april, and now will still do so, except it will come in 2 patches instead of the originally planned single patch.

Since he doesn't give a time frame for the 2 new patches, you cannot really assume they will come quicker. All you have to go on is that is was pushed back, and has now been reconsidered. Could be sooner, could be later. He doesn't really say except that we will have 1.17 before Easter. That's all we can count on and thats a full month away. God I hate ambiguity.

[Chezen]

I wish they would not talk in such vague terms.

If he had an exact date, I imagine he would have gave it. They could have pushed the patch back altogether and scrapped the event. Then we would be waiting longer.

[gifthorse]

it's kind of cute that they had all these monthly events developed for us. Cute or crazy, one or the other.

[Luhy]

They need to stop writing letters if all they say is "you still have nothing to do" over and over. The game disappoints us enough as it is.