Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
You misunderstand me, I meant the difference not the current 2 weeks longer thing. In fact I think people forget how quickly anyone finishes a patch cycle's content even back in the supposed "glory" when we had shorter periods.

Now Im not saying that them prolonging more and more leads to a good thing for the players. I think its ridiculous if it ever becomes half a year between patches but the whole 2 week thing is literally nothing and inoffensive in the current gaming space. There is so much shit coming around and HAS been around that I hope the future of MMOs people will start to realize that tying yourself to one game is extremely bad for both sides. Actually I take that back, its not extremely bad but pathetic and sad if the only thing that keeps you awake is just one game. Also I assume most of us are grown adults, time dilation is a real thing the more the years go by the faster it feels time goes by, and I dont think the current patch cycle is as differential as people make it out to be.

So yes, you dont have much of a point...........for now.
The largest issue here is that we didn’t go from 3 months to 3.5 or even 4 months but to 4.5 months.
As such, they snuck in a 1.5 month gap between patches.

The original timeline was 3 months and 3.5 months when it went over a holiday or was larger content. They told us that they needed to go 4 months but in all actuality, they raised it to 4.5 without telling us and reducing the content we got in the patches.

Having 9 months since 6.5 to 7.0 is the longest we have ever gone in a content drought. I really hope they can explain why the gaps are so large and the 6.x content delivered was so thin but I doubt it.

If I had to guess what is going on, they probably bit off more than they can chew with essentially relaunching the game with 7.0, starting a multi-expansion graphics overhaul (let’s be real, it’s going to take years to update everything), and making all MSQ dungeons in the game trust compatible as they had to remake all of them.

I really hope DT will be so good that we will forget all about this 7 months from now… I really hope…