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Greetings, adventurers!
I cannot begin to express how happy I am to see the vast majority of these changes! Thank you, SE, for restoring some of my faith in your ability to manage this content. I'm looking forward to it ... except for one thing...

Quote Originally Posted by Zhexos View Post
]Discussing The Feast (Rated) times
While this is still being debated internally, we’re discussing if we should restrict the hours in which The Feast can be played. For example, if such a system was implemented, we’d consider having The Feast open during each region’s peak hours.

The intent behind this idea would be to try and get more players involved in PvP content by having a specified time to queue where players could potentially get quicker matches, and once we have more players participating in PvP, then we could gradually increase the window of the time. Nothing is finalized here, it is still just a discussion we’re having within the team. We would like to hear your feedback on this as well, so be sure to let us know how you feel about this approach.
I understand your reasoning here, but please do not do this.

Some of us work odd hours. I, myself, often don't get home to log in until well after midnight. I'm lucky to get one or two matches a night as things are now. If you restrict the times at which we are able to even queue for PvP, then you'll be effectively locking people like me out of the content we want to play the most. I get that you want to encourage as many new players to participate as possible, and you want to consolidate the queue line, but I really don't think this will help things in the long run. You could just as easily slap a disclaimer on the DF which outlines peak hours for PvP and have the same effect, rather than locking out anyone who has an abnormal work schedule or even just happens to live in a slightly different time zone than the majority of their server community.