First let me state i'm a complete idiot
. I've been playing computer games for over a quarter of a century. There is something that has always annoyed me when dealing with game version numbers and patches. I understand that any number less than v1.0 signifies a pre release version of the game or patch and that anything greater than v1.0 is post release. My proposition is why not use a date for the version number? Using a yymmdd (year,year,month,month,day,day) format would still give a progressive ascending numerical value to any version number but would also server a double purpose of identifying the actual release date of the patch or the game. Time could even be incuded in the number such as YYMMDDHHMMSS for those times when several versions happen to be released on the same day. Since almost all games now days are released to the public before actually being finished, the release version of a game or patch being v1.0 has lost its significance and no longer has the credibility it once had. And of course any alpha or beta could easily be signified by using a lower case letter a or b. This just seems like it would be much easier on the end user to identify whether the version they are currently using is newer or older than anything they happen to find while looking for updates. Thanks for your time, I'll go back to fishing now