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

[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.

[Themis]

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.

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.

[abzoluut]

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

[Darkobra]

weekends are playtime primetime


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

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?

[Squa11_Leonhart]

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...

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

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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.

[Sapphic]

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

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 ^_^

[Canadane]

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

[Lexia]

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.

[Zaero]

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