Quote Originally Posted by cannonball View Post
some are already speculating that the last two patches being 300MB+ could have snuck in some new movies/sequences
Though the last two patches were in fact ~300mb in size, its only because of the way the patch was released. The latest patch (1.17a) only changed a few things but the entire patch was re-issued. I recently had to re-install XIV, and having archived the patches, found that only 1.17a was picked up by the patching system not both 1.17 and 1.17a. This leads me to believe that 1.17a is a complete 1.17 with additional modifications and thus supersedes 1.17 fully.

That, of course, isn't to say that among those ~300mb of patch there aren't new things we haven't seen yet.