Please don't delay Savage Raid Releases

[linayar]

Furthermore, you can't just say "just pace yourself and wait a week" because that is literally not how the race for the world-first clear works. This is a competition people are willing to invest a lot of time in, but unlike Ultimate that has a guaranteed 2-week delay so everyone can start at the same time without being hindered by preparations and the like you have to basically go all-out as soon as you log in. People even schedule free time from work a month or more ahead just to do this.

To be fair, the world-first clear "competition" is not part of the actual game. So you basically want the game's schedule to change to fit some people's preferred way of playing it rather than playing the game when and as it fits their schedule.

And fair enough if the devs are willing to accommodate, but it's not something that should necessarily be a given.

Either way, again, I hope they don't delay tomestone, which I fear they will if they do this, likely along with crafted gear.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

To be fair, the world-first clear "competition" is not part of the actual game. So you basically want the game's schedule to change to fit some people's preferred way of playing it rather than playing the game when and as it fits their schedule.

And fair enough if the devs are willing to accommodate, but it's not something that should necessarily be a given.

Either way, again, I hope they don't delay tomestone, which I fear they will if they do this, likely along with crafted gear.

You are right that this competition isn't officially built into the game, but it is a tradition this community has adopted for a long time now and the devs have acknowledged it to the point where Naoki Yoshida even watches the livestreams himself to see how far everyone is coming along. You could consider it to be pretty much a fully established tradition at this point.

However, I agree that tomestones and by extension Crafted gear shouldn't be delayed - delaying Crafted gear + materials literally would defeat the point of the 1-week delay to begin with. Obtaining crafted gear shouldn't be part of the race, player skill, identifying mechanics and developing strategies should be.

Well, one downside is people who are willing to schedule a week off work to do both story quests and savage raiding now has to take two weeks off instead.

Whereas the only con I can see is related to a race that is not part of the game. Otherwise, the waiting game can apply to both sides.

Ehhh...? I don't think so really, if you got a week of time you got good time in the evening to do MSQ, prep mats / gear, do a couple of EX runs even without having a week off.