Thread: So about the next patch (1.17)

Originally Posted by derekx

I agree we need some news, BUT we can't compare what is going on with FFXI and FFXIV. FFXI is stable. It's a little harder for Yoshida to lay out a road map like that when so much depends on the functioning of basic game play elements that have yet to be introduced.

The in the mean time in one of his letters he gave a chart and he has stated numerous times the order of his priorities. That should offer some sense of whats coming. Not perfect though, I agree. As someone mentioned, I bet we'll see a patch sometime next week.

I think the main problem is people are now tired of waiting. I like to stay positive and truly hope for the game to succeed because I love it and I have been enjoying it so far.

But at the moment the main focus is tweaking of "basic gameplay elements". Sure, they are the foundation for the game but god knows after having beta tested and having played the game for 6 months the whole "basic gameplay elements" are hanging out of my ears, some actual substantial content is needed if this game wants to succeed.

And yes, for that to work the basics have to be right. So it's a catch-twenty-two situation. Redoing the basics of the game is taking up all the development time so people are getting fed up with all the waiting for new content, but they will have to wait even longer now since instead of new stuff all the old stuff is being redone instead.

The "Core" Items they are working on are all Battle and Class/Character Related.

But that is just the Battle Sub Team that does that.

Quests/Story/Lore are all done by a different internal subteam.

They can be making all kinds of stuff while the battle team balances their new system. But they can't implement it till those changes go in. So when the "Groundwork" changes they keep mentioning are done they should have a huge chunk of content to drop along with it.

Why do people keep mentioning 6 months sure that's how long the game has been released but Yoshi has only started 3 months ago. 3 months for a new team to scavenge through the ex-dev's code and find all the notes to where stuff is coded at, can't be done as fast as you might hope. Specially when everyone codes differently(sure there is guidelines and syntax rules/company rules) but still everyone is usually just slightly different.

And for XI v XIV argument, not sure how those two can be compared. Those dev's have been together for such a long time, the director has overseen their work and what they are capable of, so hes confident in creating time lines like this. Yoshi doesn't have that luxury yet he is still learning his teams ability.

It does suck not having our patch yet, but like others said should be within a week (logically it makes sense). Anyway proceed to have your 'discussion' if it can be called that.

Originally Posted by Munba

Difficult to find news on sunday.. :P

I was expecting to see something too until I remembered today is Sunday T.T

I shouldn't have created a routine to check for news first thing in the morning XD