wow Major Patch Release Cadence by Expansion

[Stan 5,243]

Reddit user Tyrsenus created a chart and compared major patch release cadence by expansion.

Interesting Facts

• Shadowlands launched 351 days ago. 350 days into Mists of Pandaria, the final patch of the expansion (Siege of Orgrimmar) was released.
• Patch 5.4 (Mists of Pandaria) lasted 399 days and is the longest patch in WoW's history.
• The cadence of smaller content updated has changed since Mists of Pandaria. Minor .5 patches became bigger in Legion, and they're not reflected in the chart.

Major Patch Release Cadence by Expansion

The following chart covers every major patch for each expansion.

Source: Reddit

[Resnar 37]

And guess which extension had a sanitary crisis ? 

[Znifler 58]

12 hours ago, Resnar said:

And guess which extension had a sanitary crisis ? 

I feel like people, despite this being a real issue for every company during and after covid, don't give a *filtered* and expect things to rush out like nothing has happened in the world.

[ResoWho 68]

6 hours ago, Znifler said:

I feel like people, despite this being a real issue for every company during and after covid, don't give a *filtered* and expect things to rush out like nothing has happened in the world.

to be fair, most people had understood this. people are waiting for content since month now but instead you get name changes of toys, achivements and so on. the last patch just brought you faster rep for the archivist and some alt benefits and in about 1 month timewalking m+ which is recycled content. you basically paid 185-200€ until now for 2 raids and 8 m+. imagin paying so much for a single game in 2021 with so less content. i can understand that people are expecting things to fasten up now

Edited November 10, 2021 by ResoWho

[Znifler 58]

9 hours ago, ResoWho said:

to be fair, most people had understood this. people are waiting for content since month now but instead you get name changes of toys, achivements and so on. the last patch just brought you faster rep for the archivist and some alt benefits and in about 1 month timewalking m+ which is recycled content. you basically paid 185-200€ until now for 2 raids and 8 m+. imagin paying so much for a single game in 2021 with so less content. i can understand that people are expecting things to fasten up now

?? For the amount of money i've used on wow, i've gotten insane amounts of hours back. Not even my 2nd played most game ever, combined with every other game i've played, amounts to the hours i've put into wow. Goes for this expansion too. Sure i've taken a break now, but not after getting months of playtime down, which I really enjoyed. Now that is what I call value for the money.

[Resnar 37]

Same here, my top game on steam have less hours than my main in wow..

[ResoWho 68]

On 11/10/2021 at 11:04 PM, Znifler said:

?? For the amount of money i've used on wow, i've gotten insane amounts of hours back. Not even my 2nd played most game ever, combined with every other game i've played, amounts to the hours i've put into wow. Goes for this expansion too. Sure i've taken a break now, but not after getting months of playtime down, which I really enjoyed. Now that is what I call value for the money.

in my opinion ~200€ for 1 expansion is pretty much compared to other games/companies earnings, so expectations are higher here and we have a huge lack of content in this expansion and even with corona and the lawsuit around it was enough time and money given to present more then what we actually got with 9.1.5

tbh if i wouldnt pay my game time since legion with gold i probably would take a break aswell. doesnt your break just show that wow at this very moment isnt worth the monthly money you spent on it ?

Edited November 12, 2021 by ResoWho

[Znifler 58]

On 11/12/2021 at 4:50 AM, ResoWho said:

in my opinion ~200€ for 1 expansion is pretty much compared to other games/companies earnings, so expectations are higher here and we have a huge lack of content in this expansion and even with corona and the lawsuit around it was enough time and money given to present more then what we actually got with 9.1.5

tbh if i wouldnt pay my game time since legion with gold i probably would take a break aswell. doesnt your break just show that wow at this very moment isnt worth the monthly money you spent on it ?

You have fair points friend, and sure my break now is due to having played enough for a while. But I would say, up until now, i've gotten fair use of the sub. I will probably still play on and off until 9.2 comes, but not as much as I used to. Which is kind of nice, I have time for more things in life now haha.

Edited November 15, 2021 by Znifler