4-month patch cycle was a lie. It's almost 4.5 months now.

[Koros]

As a side note, cycles aren't even 4 months. Except for 6.1, so far they have been always significantly longer than the promised 4 months. 6.3 took over 4.6 months.

Releases:
6.0 - 7.12.2021
6.1 - 12.4.2022
6.2 - 23.8.2022
6.3 - 10.1.2023
6.4 - 23.5.2023

4 months ~= 121.5 days if we want to be pedantic

Cycles:
6.0-6.1 => 126 days = 4.14 months
6.1-6.2 => 133 days = 4.37 months
6.2-6.3 => 140 days = 4.60 months
6.3-6.4 => 133 days = 4.37 months

Average so far = 133 days = 4.37 months

"The major patch cycle cadence will be adjusted. Previously, it was 1 major patch every 3.5 months. Going forward it will be one major patch every four months. Roughly two weeks longer."

Adding extra 2.5 weeks to what is supposed to be 2 weeks is too rough in my opinion.

Remember when people were saying "what's another 2 weeks"? Now it's another 2.5 weeks. And like a frog in slowly heated water, the players don't realize this gradual change.

Who else is excited for 5-month patch cycles in 7.x!!!

[AlexiaD]

Remember when people were saying "what's another 2 weeks"? Now it's another 2.5 weeks. And like a frog in slowly heated water, the players don't realize this gradual change.

Who else is excited for 5-month patch cycles in 7.x!!!

I cant wait to have to wait 5 months for my 2 days worth of content and then be out of content for the entire rest of the patch so for another 5 months, absolutely excited ! Wooooo ! /s

[Jeeqbit]

It does seem longer. SE did say that they were also taking breaks for holidays, but they aren't very clear about which holidays and when.

[Moonlite]

I know this is meant to upset people. But if you go from 2.0 to 7.0 release date, the average actually is 5 months. Give or take a few days depending on how far they stretch summer.

[TaleraRistain]

I think that first post is forgetting that patches release on Tuesdays

4-12 is the Tuesday after what would be 4 months counting by the same date from 12-7
8-23 is 1 week longer since the Tuesday after 8-12 is 8-16 so some questions could be asked there why that was 1 week off
4 months from that would have been 12-23 and the Tuesday after that was 12-27 so this one makes sense with a couple of weeks after the holiday in there
Next one is also 1 week off since the Tuesday after 4 months would be 5-16 and there could be a question there

Keeping with this extra 1 week in there here and there, 6.5 being Early October will probably be 10-3 since 9-26 would be the Tuesday after 4 months. What's interesting here is the 10 year anniversary said Moogle Tomes are August 27th and those are usually a month before a patch, so I'm curious what may have pushed it out that week if that's how it happens.

Regardless, there is some drift and that could be questioned but it's not two weeks when taken into account that patches happen on Tuesday.

[DrWho2010]

guess you'll have to find something else to do in the meantime.

[Kes13a]

guess you'll have to find something else to do in the meantime.

not sure what has the OP's knickers in a knot anyway, they dont pay for the game. the only thing they are here for in their free game is to cause forum drama

[Koros]

not sure what has the OP's knickers in a knot anyway, they dont pay for the game. the only thing they are here for in their free game is to cause forum drama

only reason forum drama starts over hard facts is because simps have their knickers in a knot when people are just pointing out facts!!!

[Karious]

They hated him because he told the truth.

[Deo14]

I know this is meant to upset people. But if you go from 2.0 to 7.0 release date, the average actually is 5 months. Give or take a few days depending on how far they stretch summer.

Mind telling me your calculations? Did you count .55 as major patch?
2.0 was released in 27/8/2013, 6.4 in 23/5/2023, that's 3556 days.

Major patches are :
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5,
3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5,
4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5,
5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5,
6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 = 28 patches

Average between each patch, including X.5 to Y.0, is 127 days. In-expansion patches have average of 118. This is of course, assuming that ChatGPT gave me right release dates and I didn't do mistakes:



Before someone gets the misconception that I'm demanding that devs hurry up or whatever, I'm just pointing out the fact that patches do take longer, even longer than they said they will, while quality is noticeably worse. Right now EW is at worse pace than even ShB's Covid pace for some reason, and content doesn't reflect the added time to it. The "they take more time to check everything is working" doesn't even apply, EW patches do lack QA, as we can see from numerous bugs EW had. I'm not trying to bring the game down, I just want to have back the better standards, instead of settling on mediocrity.