Everyone is praising the 5.5-month patch cycle!

[Rueby]

Wait what am I missing? 5.5 month? What?

[Eyrilona]

Wait what am I missing? 5.5 month? What?

For the moment, just people making up numbers that are higher than previous numbers. Because the patch cycle went from 3 months to 4/4.5, the argument is that this is a trend that will surely go to 5.5 months soon. Or 6 or 7 months, depending on which of their threads you read. It only sounds credible because the increase was recent, so the change in patch cycle length feels like it moved on a steep slope in the recent past. It is really no different though than if, for example, you had your birthday last week, so this week you are one year older than you were a week ago, and now someone is extrapolating this as a trend that you are going to be another year older by next week, and two years older the week after that.

[lolnotacat]

For the moment, just people making up numbers that are higher than previous numbers. Because the patch cycle went from 3 months to 4/4.5, the argument is that this is a trend that will surely go to 5.5 months soon. Or 6 or 7 months, depending on which of their threads you read. It only sounds credible because the increase was recent, so the change in patch cycle length feels like it moved on a steep slope in the recent past. It is really no different though than if, for example, you had your birthday last week, so this week you are one year older than you were a week ago, and now someone is extrapolating this as a trend that you are going to be another year older by next week, and two years older the week after that.