Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
Yoshi-P did a great job with this. This was pay to play caliber, the first in a long time. The new gear sets the tone for the battle engine ahead, this is the baseline and it's a very good one. Midlevellers everywhere have some really great things to look forward to when they pick the game back up again. All the gear, in relation to the R50 gear we have, almost begs you to ask what materia will do to this equation.
I wonder what has happened to lovely messages like this:

Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
This is what an intelligent player who isn't a fanboy thinks this patch will be:
1.17
60% of this entire patch IS the egg hunt.
10% of this first patch is more UI tweaking and bugfix

If you think this patch will overshadow the holiday event, you were born yesterday.
So, who is "born yesterday?" What happened to what the "intelligent players who are not fanboys" thought? and all the negativity that you slapped in our faces for 30 pages?

The funny part is that this all comes at no real surprise, and you've been told multiple times both by the devs and by fellow players. Content and updates are worked in paralel by multiple teams. This means that updating always starts small (unless it involves stuff already in development before release) and patches become more and more sizable with time, as more and more projects approach their completion phase.