Thread: Everyone is praising the 5.5-month patch cycle!

Originally Posted by Sotaris

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.

I thought there was some formula that a patch would come out a certain number of weeks after the first Live Letter, so I’d be expecting late October or early November, hopefully!

Originally Posted by Sotaris

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.

What I posted is a near-worst case scenario, but we are averaging 4.5 right now so 5 is not out of the question and 6 could be on the horizon.

Apparently, according to other threads, there are rumblings of internal problems with CS3 with others meddling in the game’s development which is requiring rewrites, reworks, etc.

That could also explain the longer time and Yoshi’s silence on the situation of the game. It’s like he is letting the meddlers see what they have done before trying to take things back, if he can.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I thought there was some formula that a patch would come out a certain number of weeks after the first Live Letter, so I’d be expecting late October or early November, hopefully!

I lean in that direction too, seeing they are going to talk about 7.1 part 1 in this PLL. I'm mostly just interested in the alliance raid as an 11 player but doubtful we get details on that until part 2. Who knows, might tune in anyway.

Originally Posted by Sotaris

I lean in that direction too, seeing they are going to talk about 7.1 part 1 in this PLL. I'm mostly just interested in the alliance raid as an 11 player but doubtful we get details on that until part 2. Who knows, might tune in anyway.

Yeah, I don't expect much. I kind of hate the amount of information they dump on each LL, because when you get to see the whole picture, is not a lot.

They spend a LONG time recapping stuff that we know already, and then talking extensively about small details like the number of polygons on a Lalafell's cheek. The actual important information takes like 1/3rd of the time.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I thought there was some formula that a patch would come out a certain number of weeks after the first Live Letter, so I’d be expecting late October or early November, hopefully!

Nope, actually not consistent at all. Only consistency is the release date after the 2nd PLL (1 1/2 weeks). Time between part 1 PLL and patch release has been anything from 5 1/2 weeks to 9 1/2 weeks within recent expansions.

Originally Posted by Supersnow845

We have reached peak joke on the forums

I…….one of the original foremost candidates of being a titanman alt and probably the most annoying healer main on the forums…….have been called a square shill

We may as well just shut the forums down now

Horseshoe theory is real.

Originally Posted by Maltothoris

Correction on the patch release, 7.05 came out 4 weeks after the release date of 7.0 which was the 30th. However, I think the longer patch cycle rears its ugly head in x.5 which is double the time of the normal launch schedule before the next expansion. Ideally this next patch should be coming out late October at this point but that would make it 4.5 comparatively speaking.

7.0's official release date was July 2nd. Early Access started June 28th.

7.01 was when the Arcadion normal came out and that was July 16th.

7.05 which was the Savage patch came out on July 30th.

Roughly 4 months from July 2nd would be November 5th. If they go an extra week then it would be November 12th. So one of those will probably be 7.1, though the date of part 2 of the 7.1 LL will make it clearer which it will probably be. Or if they tell us in this upcoming LL when the next moogle event is coming, since that usually runs a month before the major patch.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I thought there was some formula that a patch would come out a certain number of weeks after the first Live Letter, so I’d be expecting late October or early November, hopefully!

Usually the first part is about a month and maybe some change before the patch and the second is about 2 weeks before the patch. But the LLs during TGS can skew the schedule sometimes since TGS doesn't always fall within those windows.