[Venti]

Speaking to Namdarie it sounds like they are still in semi-beta/crisis mode. Their long term plans probably are to have patches on the dev server for a week and the test server for another week or two before live, but with so much broken or needing to be implemented they are having to rush things. Once the game stabalizes their patch cycles will probably match MMO norms.

Even WoW and EQ2 where rushing out patches very fast the first couple of months.