The Next Live Letter is on October 31st, which means 7.4 is likely mid December..

Doesn't this put Savage on the week of the 23rd? Are Devs really going to release a major piece of end game content on the holidays, again? This is definitely something that will cause some backlash because of how busy that time of year is. I am a fairly casual savage raider and even I can see how many people could potentially be unhappy with this in the World Race crowd.

If I were Yoshi-P I would push 7.4 to either release 1-2 weeks prior, or delay savage by 1 week so that it falls on the week of New Year's. it's still kind of crappy to have it drop mid holiday, but better New Year's than two days before Christmas.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

Yes, for getting the tier earlier. No, if they delayed it even further. Patch cadence is already slow enough as is.

Christmas is not as important as New Year Eve in Japan, heck Christmas is basically their Valentine's day.
It's a Japanese game first and foremost.

I don't see a problem. I'm honestly looking forward to play 7.4 in mid December. Then i can play the game on the holidays.

Wouldn't it be a good thing to have things during the holidays ???
More free time to play and all that.

No. A lot of people are away from their computers visiting family that time of year. My static can't start until Jan because one of ours is literally out of the county.

I don't mind since I don't celebrate Xmas and the raid tier will be locked for the next say 7-8 months later either way.

As far as I know, Japanese people visit KFC around Christmas, and that's basically their entire celebration of the holiday. It means little to them, so I could see it.

December is about what I predicted. No surprise there. And they did it before with, I think it was Chaotic which was met with the same criticism? They'll absolutely do it.

It sucks but what else can we do? ”I won't be able to do it right away!” ....Okay? It's still going to be there and fresh for you to do.

I'm really looking forward to the last Arcadion tier, either way.