Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
As they like to do 4 content patches and a lite 5th, it would not surprise me to see them go ahead and move it to 6 months for each patch as the game is 2.5 years between major updates. They would say that they need more time to do quality assurance, etc. Then they would put the x.x5 patch at the halfway point so they can say that they returned to the 3 month patch cycle of content release.

Will this really happen? Not sure, but it would address the gap of 9 months of no content between major updates at the end of the patch cycle. This would really suck for raiders as each raid would come out every year and maintaining a static over such time periods would be difficult.

Hypothetical Calendar
7.0 - Releases in July 2024
7.05 - Releases in October 2024
7.1 - Releases in January 2025
7.15 - Releases in April 2025
7.2 - Releases in July 2025
7.25 - Releases in October 2025
7.3 - Releases in January 2026
7.35 - Releases in April 2026
7.4 - Releases in July 2026
7.45 - Releases in September 2026
7.5 - Releases November 2026
8.0 - Releases in January of 2027

The smaller gaps in the patches at the end is to hype up things to get things alive again prior to the major release.
I hope 7.1 is released much earlier than january. That'd be 6 months + since 7.0 release.

I'm currently subbed and expires in Oct, but I haven't played since august, if 7.1 isn't slated for a release soon I will probably not renew it and just continue playing FF11.