Part 1:

I know, i get it. This topic is everywhere and it does get annoying.
But sadly I do believe we need to talk about this. We all know the game is not in the best of states right now and we need the developers, and even more so Square Enix to understand
And yeah, this is gonna be a long one. And yes Spoilers might happen.

Now I want to preface this by saying I have been playing since 2.1/2.2
So yeah I have been around for a long time. Seen how the game changed over the years and always loved playing it. I played it when streamers and content creators really did not care about the game. And Queues for any kind of content especially as DPS was at least 20 minutes because we were just way fewer people. ( EU player )

So talking about Patches. How about we start this off by comparing 2.2 with 7.2

For starters lets take a look about the time it took to release 2,2 and 7.2 compared to 2.1 and 7.1

2.1 released on 17 December 2013 - 2.2 released on 27 March 2014 Exactly 100 Days.
7.1 released on 12 November 2024 - 7.2 released on 25 March 2025 Exactly 133 Days.

Now lets compare how much content we got.
2.2 :New Content
Main Story: Through the Maelstrom (19 quests, later reduced to 14 in patch 5.3)
Side Story: Hildibrand, Agent of Enquiry Chapter 2 (4 quests)
Dungeons: *The Lost City of Amdapor, *Halatali (Hard), *Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)
Trials: *The Whorleater (Hard), *The Whorleater (Extreme), *Thornmarch (Extreme), *Battle on the Big Bridge
Raid Series: *The Second Coil of Bahamut
Beast Tribe Quests and Reputation: Sahagin and Kobolds
Zodiac Weapons third and fourth part added
**Cast Glamour: Allows the player to transform the appearance of his or her gear to match that of other gear, with some restrictions.
Housing: Gardening added
Retainer Ventures added
*Duty Roulette: Expert and *Duty Roulette: Trials added
Challenge Log added
Big Fishing added
The visual appearance of the Goblet residential area has been redesigned.


7,2 New Content
Patch 7.2
Main Story: Seekers of Eternity (8 quests)
Raid Series: *AAC Cruiserweight Tier,
Savage will release one week after normal
Side Story: Additional Cornservant Quest: When Death Comes to Dinner
Dungeon: *The Underkeep
Trials: *Recollection, *Recollection (Extreme)
Faux Hollows: *Hells' Kier (Unreal)
Notice how much shorter the list is? And please understand this comparison is just 2.2 vs 7.2
Everything that came after is not included. So Occult Crescent in 7.25 is not part of this.
Neither is the fact that 2.2 added ps4 support and another relic step during its cycle cause they did not do it at release.
Relics also started right away in 2.0 that's why 2.2 is already 3rd and 4th step ( and later 5th even) Meanwhile Dawntrail relic only starts in 7.25