Thread: It's 1.20 not 1.2

Originally Posted by Delsus

Its obvious that they are proper decimals which is why it has been 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.9, 1.20, 1.21 etc etc, some people do refer to them and 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9, but if they followed that logic, we would be on v2 now.

1.20=1.2, 1.12 (although it didnt exsist) =/= 1.2 its not rocket science.

Wrong. I'll try and elaborate on my previous post.

There are two basic systems, one where there are decimals and one where there are two (or more) numbers separated with a dot.

Decimal: 1.00, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.06, 1.07, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, ...

Non-decimal: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, ...

Notice how from 1.10 onward they look the same, but the patterns are not. Since we started with 1.15 (1.15a to be exact) there's no way to tell what system they're using until we start getting version updates after 2.0 (in which case we'll see the pattern prior to 2.10) or someone from the team tells us what system they use.

Also theoretically once you hit 1.99 with decimals you must roll over to 2.0, while with non-decimals you can just continue to 1.100, though 100 revisions to a version without updating the first number would be very rare. Of course there are other variant systems too, with multiple dot separators, whole numbers only, or just dates, rather than these types of version numbers, they just obviously don't apply to FFXIV.

Their usage of both 1.20 and 2.0 do suggest that they use the non-decimal system, because normally you would use 1.2 or 2.00, depending on how you truncate them (either you'd omit all trailing zeroes or always show them up to the place to which you plan revisions to be). It does not preclude them from using decimals though.

In before 100 more posts claiming "but 1.2 = 1.20!" and "no, software is always two separate numbers!" because no one reads anyone else's posts or clicks on Wikipedia links explaining everything.