Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
It was more like 6 months, which is quite a lot of time after the odd-numbered patch.

What is different now is they extended the patch cycles from 3 and a half months to 4 months, combined with the fact they want to really draw out the final minor patches to reduce the impact of the content drought that is going to last all the way until the middle of 2024.
Patches went from 3 months to 4 to 4.5 months. With them extending the patches so often, the existing content ends up going stale and people just stop logging in, then quitting. This new patch cycle is a disaster for the FC I am in, nobody is left except for a few raid loggers and they are done next month.

There gets to be a point where you just don’t even want to come back for expansions.

We went from a steady supply of content to a trickle to a drip and now…

Really feels like the game is in maintenance mode now that they finished it. Yea yea I know expansion is coming but it feels as if the original team has moved on and given it to a maintenance team.

Dragging out the echo and lockouts feels like an attempt to make anemic content last longer.