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I was very confused the first time I encountered the x.y notation because I was wondering why version 1.15 was more recent than version 1.9... but now I'm used to it, even if I still find it very stupid, and I would be as confused when seeing a version 1.9 more recent than a 1.15


You'd love Final Fantasy 14's versioning scheme. Here's the most recent patches in order:

* 7.0: the expansion Dawntrail

* 7.1: Crossroads, a post-expansion story/content patch

* 7.11: A new ultimate raid

* 7.15: More side content and the first chaotic alliance raid

* 7.16: More role quests

* 7.2: Seekers of Eternity story quests and more Arcadion normal raids (Cruiserweight)

* 7.21: Cosmic Exploration (crafter/gatherer power leveling area)

* 7.25: Occult Crescent (field operation)

* 7.3: The Promise of Tomorrow story quests (slated to come out early next month)

This version progression breaks my brain because I am very used to semantic versioning.


Am I parsing this right? Are we adding a place to the version number to denote 'this change is in the 2s'?

So we went from v0 to v10, then to v11, then v15, and so on?


Just speculating. They may be treating versions like decimal fractions. Thus, 7.16 < 7.2. But I can't say that this is the best place to use that concept.


Same as wow. It makes more sense like this. Maybe the issue is that some interpret what look like decimal numbers but are not decimal numbers as decimal numbers.




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