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

[Moonlite]

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.

Your missing the biggest time space I said to 7.0. Which adds 395+ more days to 29 patches. Which just has a seasonal release date. Your number is at almost 4.2 months already. We are literally in the same month your roughly second week and I am end week or start of next.

[Deo14]

Your missing the biggest time space I said to 7.0. Which adds 395+ more days to 29 patches. Which just has a seasonal release date. Your number is at almost 4.2 months already. We are literally in the same month your roughly second week and I am end week or start of next.

I don't include release dates that we don't know. And 7.0 would be 30th patch, you didn't account for 6.5. I know that it feels like we should be halfway through 6.5 by this time, but we're still just in 6.4.

But if you want to use uncertain release dates, then if 6.5 is scheduled for early october and 7.0 for early summer, then let's use 10.10.2023 for 6.5 and 14.7.2024 (1/4 into the summer) for 7.0, then we would still get to average of ~4.352 months per patch, which is still far from the 5 months as you suggest. This average would climb to your suggested 5 months only if 7.0 released in spring of 2026.