Quote Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming View Post
not the changes we actually need. Like shortening the patch cycle
The patch cycle is very frequent though. Developing things takes time. The only thing that conceivably make it faster is switching to the Unreal 5 engine or using AI for everything.

increasing the longevity of content
I think that's what people really want when they say more frequent patch cycles.

I can't see this game lasting more than 5 years if nothing is done
It takes more than 5 years for everyone to stop playing a high-population game they have played for 10 years, especially when it is regularly producing top-quality content such as extreme, savage, ultimate, criterion, items and story.

It would take at least 10 years for people to slowly leave and then for returners to stop returning and if SE keeps creating top-quality content like this then many of them will probably just return anyway.

Currently there still isn't really a good amount of statistical evidence of this in the first place.