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

[Deebs]

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?

[Noahlimits]

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.

[Edeline]

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

[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.

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.

[Noahlimits]

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.

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?

[WinterSolstice]

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?

...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.

[Noahlimits]

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.

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?

[Garlyle]

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

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.

[Nutz]

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?

[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.