Why can't new patch releases come out on a friday/saturday?

Every patch release I have to weigh the pros and cons of calling in sick at work so I can experience the awesomeness of new content ASAP.

So what's up? no love for the weekend warriors? :p

They seem to usually plan it for when they normally go down for maintenance anyways. Saves having two days of maintenance and from having people double dip on new tomestones before resets.

If something goes wrong with the patch during weekend, we'd have to wait til Monday for it to get fixed.

Part of me often hopes that something goes wrong so all the people who call in sick for work waste their time. I think calling off work because you lack the patience to wait is irresponsible childish. I'm an ass though, so that's just me.

I'm fine with it on Tuesdays. It makes it much easier for them to address the issues that always happen after a new major patch. As Edeline said, if it was on Friday, we'd have to wait a while for something (potentially game-breaking) to be fixed.

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Originally Posted by WinterSolstice

Part of me often hopes that something goes wrong so all the people who call in sick for work waste their time. I think calling off work because you lack the patience to wait is irresponsible childish. I'm an ass though, so that's just me.

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What about people who are going for world firsts on raid patches? And what's the difference between this and taking work off to do any hobby? If you have the vacation time or don't need the money from working that day, why is it irresponsible or childish to take the day off?

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Originally Posted by Noahlimits

What about people who are going for world firsts on raid patches? And what's the difference between this and taking work off to do any hobby? If you have the vacation time or don't need the money from working that day, why is it irresponsible or childish to take the day off?

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...what?

Calling in sick is a very different thing than taking vacation days or asking for time off in advance. Taking vacation days usually requires you to have it approved in advance. Asking for time off in advance...obviously the same issue. Both of these allow for wherever you work to cover you, if needed. This leads to nobody being inconvenienced.

Calling in sick is not done in advance. It's done the night before, or the morning of. This leads to people often being inconvenienced. If you work in a place that requires your position to be there all the time, there is a very high possibility that others will have to cover for you with short notice, often others who weren't even supposed to work that day.

Of course this all depends on where you work. If you work in a place where you can simply take off work without any notice while not making anyone else's jobs harder, then more power to you.

However if it involves you inconveniencing others just so you can play a video game earlier than normal...yeah. That's selfish and you should reconsider your priorities.

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Originally Posted by WinterSolstice

Of course this all depends on where you work. If you work in a place where you can simply take off work without any notice while not making anyone else's jobs harder, then more power to you.

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You described my job in a nutshell. As a software engineer if I call out my work just waits for me until I get back.

A lot of jobs actually use the same pool of hours for both sick and vacation hours. In that instance, most people call in sick last minute since the hours come from the same place.

As for calling in sick when you aren't actually sick, well, people can do whatever they want. To call them selfish and childish when it's within their rights to do so is, well, being pretty judgmental. You're more than welcome to your opinion but name calling isn't really the way to go about it. Do you see someone taking a personal day to play selfish as well? Personal days are ment to be used for any personal reason you want and in most cases with late notice. They can also cause people to do more work to cover your work, but at the same time you're using them as intended (since a personal day is any paid or unpaid day off you take that isn't being sick or on vacation).


Edit: To the OP, I have to ask too, why don't you just request the time off in advance instead of calling out sick?

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Originally Posted by Edeline

If something goes wrong with the patch during weekend, we'd have to wait til Monday for it to get fixed.

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This. Also, Tuesdays have apparently been shown time and time again to be the time when the least amount of people are playing MMORPGs - in other words, the day when it affects the least people.

Tuesday works best because it's their weekly reset day/ regular maintenance day. If that sounds like circular logic, Tuesday is their regular maintenance day because of lower than average server traffic and enough up time remaining in the week to find and fix any potentially severe problems that arise.

Also, why not schedule a personal day or something? I suppose for a lot of jobs it doesn't matter much, but if you can just schedule the time in advance then why bother waiting until the last minute and then lying about your reasons for not coming in to work?

weekends are playtime primetime


seriously why does this thread even exist, the question has a logical answer that anyone could think of themselves.

Game should never take precedence over life and responsibility. Waiting a few days for the weekend won't destroy your experience. The content will still be there as will people willing to do it with you.
Gotta keep things in perspective. Save those sick days for emergencies.

Reset day is Tuesday. If they released a patch on Friday or Saturday then you could double dip on new content. With the reset being right around the corner.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Reset day is Tuesday. If they released a patch on Friday or Saturday then you could double dip on new content. With the reset being right around the corner.

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And this is a problem why? I know I couldn't care less.

There's something about Tuesday's being like official release day or something.

Look at any non-indie ps4 game release since it came out (almost all if not all have released on a Tuesday)
Every MMO I've played released patches and did maintenance on Tuesday.

It's just a thing.

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Originally Posted by Slappah

There's something about Tuesday's being like official release day or something.

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Apparently that's because people do most of their home entertainment spending on Tuesday through Thursday, so they get right on the cusp of it. As for why they do it with updates and patches, I'm guessing it's just traditional.

Probably because that is when weekly reset happens

If the Weekly Reset was on a weekend, players would be able to cap out during said weekend, and then have nothing to do during the week. It's strategy lol

and with people playing games during the weekend, launching patches in weekend seems dumb. imagine the amount of people hoarding to log in, server crashes, emergency maint after that.

with people crying on forums every now and then on scheduled maint and asking for compensation, nope. not going to do patches on weekends and inviting more threads lol.

I wonder if the staff who work on maintenance have weekends off. I'm pretty sure they don't work 24/7 and/or are not robots. :0 Beep boop.

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Originally Posted by Parawill

I wonder if the staff who work on maintenance have weekends off. I'm pretty sure they don't work 24/7 and/or are not robots. :0 Beep boop.

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Such staffs are usually on rotational basis. 5 or 6 days a week, with their offs on rotation, sometimes weekdays sometimes weekends.

And cut into my off days? I'm already hit with maintenence when I get home from work, and now you want me to lose my time when I'm completely off?

New games come out on Tuesdays. This was decided by the Video Game God long ago. Because of this, MMORPGs like FF14 and WoW release content patches and expansions on Tuesdays. If they try to break convention and go against the Video Game God, their game will surely suffer as a result.

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Originally Posted by Arrak

New games come out on Tuesdays. This was decided by the Video Game God long ago. Because of this, MMORPGs like FF14 and WoW release content patches and expansions on Tuesdays. If they try to break convention and go against the Video Game God, their game will surely suffer as a result.

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Almost like it is one of the major commandments laid forth: "Thou shalt releaseth games only on Tuesdays".

It's just a fact of gaming life that new things come out on Tuesdays. In the case of patches, it gives the support team 4 days (when they would normally be working) to fix any issues before the weekend comes which is when most players will be available to play the game properly.

The "I wantz it NAW" mentality in a nutshell folks.

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Originally Posted by Squa11_Leonhart

weekends are playtime primetime


seriously why does this thread even exist, the question has a logical answer that anyone could think of themselves.

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Except that some games do actually update on a Friday for that very reason. See, when people get home from work on a Friday and have a weekend with a brand new patch...

Oh. You're not employed, are you?

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

Except that some games do actually update on a Friday for that very reason. See, when people get home from work on a Friday and have a weekend with a brand new patch...

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I'd rather be playing on friday night instead of waiting for an x.xGB patch to download.

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Originally Posted by Noahlimits

As for calling in sick when you aren't actually sick, well, people can do whatever they want. To call them selfish and childish when it's within their rights to do so is, well, being pretty judgmental.

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Originally Posted by Squa11_Leonhart

I'd rather be playing on friday night instead of waiting for an x.xGB patch to download.

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And not missing saturday or sunday due to emergency maintenance either ^_^

SSo question to OP, would you prefer patch on a friday with the added possibility of downtime on saturday and sunday after? Or leave as is and have emergency downtime on the weds, thurs. Not to mention tomestone reset, new week, new tomestones, plus having reset on the weekdays doesnt put all the pressure on the servers where everyone capping tomestones at the same time, its split atm, weekday players cap over the week and at weekend, capped or close to. weekend players then have less busy instance servers to farm there poetics ^_^

I thought it was set to be in line for the weekly lockout resets.

New movies and games usually come out on Tuesday so I don't find it uncommon they would follow that same path for new content.

Just go to work. FF14 will be here when you get back.

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Originally Posted by Noahlimits

What about people who are going for world firsts on raid patches? And what's the difference between this and taking work off to do any hobby? If you have the vacation time or don't need the money from working that day, why is it irresponsible or childish to take the day off?

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I'll give you an example here, I work in a supermarket where rotas are done 2 weeks in advance allowing people to make plans around work commitments. We have just had some major restructuring cutting staff basically down to the bare minimum to operate. Due to this staffing and the 2 week rotas, if someone calls in sick we can be 1 staff member short if no one can cover, this one staff member makes checkout queues potentially double (depending on the day) less stock gets on the shop floor the staff have to work a lot harder and get less done. Sales get affected further cutting the hours we get given. If however we use holiday time, we have to give 4 weeks notice (depending on the circumstances and if there is time available you can ask anytime before that rota is done) it gets worked out so we are not short staffed and the time off doesn't affect the store operating.

Some patches are 8-48 hours long, imagine the "Weekend Warriors" not being able to play on their only day off. Tuesdays at 4am is perfect for me.