soooo 2.28?Follow

its the middle of may andwe havent heard anything about its release date know its when we know its supposed to come out this month. anyone know anything?

Nothing official yet that I know of. They might announce something in the live letter next week though.

End of May. Yoshi deals in extremes when it comes to this. Normally Live Letter is supposed to cover the next major patch, which in the latest interviews says "after E3" which could be after the last day or 7 months after (remember his last "soon after E3 that ended up as nearly months after?)

Nah, they've announced they'll be talking about the "upcoming Novus weapon quest" in the Live Letter on the 24th. Which means that 2.28 will be after the Live Letter. It's late, for sure, but we knew that already.

Here's the thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/166329-Ask-Questions-for-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-XIV%21-%28Zodiac-Weapons%29

Edited, May 19th 2014 6:21am by blowfin

If patch 2.28 comes out on the 28th, I would consider that to be coincidental. Patch numbers should always be increasing. If they did the minor number based on the day of the month, 2.27 could come out next month, after 2.28. And that wouldn't make sense.

They've skipped a bunch of numbers. You're probably correct in that they only release the patch number when it's a client side update. There's also every chance that server and client side code bases are just about totally separate, and have individual versioning.

As en example at work we certainly don't update all of our clients to the latest build all at the same time, they get a new build when it offers the particular fix or feature that they need. Same thing probably happens with content patches, there's probably a bunch of "under the hood" changes which for all intents and purposes, we don't really need to know about, nor do we need them delivered ASAP. They can wait until the next scheduled update and be bundled in with the content.

Then again they might do something like have gaps in the versions so they have room to slip in another patch between say 2.25 and 2.28 and not have to number it something like 2.25.12345 (but we do see the minor revision numbers on the title screen). With the current setup they have room for 9 minor patches between the regular updates (i.e. 2.2 -> 2.3), and that might be the only reason they've got it set up that way.

Truth is we don't really know unless SE tells us how their versioning methodology works.




Edited, May 20th 2014 5:29am by blowfin

in that case when the say "relic update coming in 2.28" how do they KNOW things are gonn ahappen in between 2.2 and 2.28 that theyre gonna need exactly 7 patches to get to 2.28 if theyre not skipping numbers?

Considering it also covers novus, chances are it'll be after since it would be weird to talk about Novus after people are already acquiring it.

I'm not even sure what you're asking. What I'm saying is they basically space out the patch numbers they release to us so they have room in between to add another patch, if it's necessary.

The numbers that they choose are more or less arbitrary, and not a huge deal of significance should be placed on them.



It's been mentioned a few times but they're talking about the next installment for Animus in the Live letter, so we won't have the 2.28 content before then.