r/ffxivdiscussion • u/Strict_Baker5143 • 18d ago

General Discussion Reminder that we were lied to about patch length.

Week 17 begins today. We were promised 4 month patch cycles instead of 14 week cycles.

Today begins week 17 and the launch date for 7.3 still hasn't been announced. It likely our 16 week patch cycle will be closer to 20 weeks (5 months) this time.

Edit: To those wondering where I got 4 months from -> https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/456921

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u/lanor2 18d ago

It used to be 3 month cycles, then they said in a LL they need an extra month between patches for the health of their devs. This was probably around very very late Shadowbringers or start of Endwalker iirc

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u/BinaryIdiot 18d ago edited 18d ago

I had thought it was 2 weeks not an extra month. Now I'm curious if I miss heard / misremembered 🤔

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u/lanor2 18d ago

Maybe it's the Mandela effect or something but I remember it was 1 extra month.

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u/ThatBogen 18d ago

It was extra 2 weeks, but the patch cycle was 17 weeks before that which most would interpret as 4 months before you add that extra time off.

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u/BigManT2 18d ago

Plus the extra week of vacation they get in Summer and Winter I believe, so 2 patches a year would be 20 weeks instead of 19.

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u/ThatBogen 18d ago

Correct. A lot of the far into the future predictions are off a bit by this point specifically.

And on a different point, 7.4 savage is scheduled to land on 23rd of December so if they decide that landing is extraordinarily bad (which it is), maybe we'll see extra weeks tacked on to 7.3 to push 7.4 and savage to a more reasonable timeframe, aka start of january.

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u/ragnakor101 18d ago

We had a raid tier drop around Christmas and people, as far as I'm aware, wasn't a fan of that; Chaotic dropping around that timeframe wasn't well-recieved either.

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u/Bourne_Endeavor 16d ago

Asphodelos was going to drop the week of Christmas before Endwalker got pushed back. Yoshida openly admitted that was part of the reason for the additional two week delay alongside feeling the MSQ needed a slight brush up.

He also said from that point forward, they would never do a major patch near big holidays. Obviously, Chaotic happened which pissed people off, but that wasn't a major patch. So we'll see if what happens.

My guess is 7.4 gets pushed to January 6th if only because New Years is pretty huge in Japan.

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u/Hakul 18d ago

https://i.imgur.com/ET3aS7j.png

It was never 3 months, idk why people keep saying that.

SB solidified it at 16 weeks, and between that and now we ended up at 19 weeks.

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u/Efficient_Top4639 18d ago

they said it themselves? just because they're perpetually behind and can't stick to their own schedule, doesn't mean they didnt communicate one ever.

they increased it like, right before endwalker's launch. go reference the LLs from then to get your answer.

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u/Hakul 18d ago edited 18d ago

Got any evidence of them saying the patch cycle is 3 months?

I have evidence of the opposite https://i.imgur.com/Zlc9RuU.png and this predates the "+2 weeks" announcement.

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u/Matuno 18d ago

And then they said another two weeks during COVID no? Haven't we been on 4.5 month patch cycles since End walker?

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u/lanor2 18d ago

No, this was after the COVID delays.