Quote Originally Posted by OneTrueMiqote View Post
Yes, it's a pretty big deal in the raiding community, whether you are hardcore and want to go for that competitiveness or just have a static and require scheduling around the holidays.
No it's not, it's only a big deal for competitive teams. Those who aren't in any sort of race aren't going to be bothered by this too much or at all. I know my own team and others I know won't care much. We'll just delay raiding until after the Xmas holidays, just like how we have put raiding on hold every time Xmas was in the middle of our raid progress.

Sure many people won't be a fan of this if the schedule comes out the way you detailed in your first post, but it's not going to be as many people as you think who will be genuinely negatively affected by it.

However the pandemic has shaken up SE's release schedule a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if they do end up delaying the release of savage due to being aware of how the timing is far from ideal for western competitive players in the world race. I don't think it's a coincidence that before the pandemic we never had expansion releases or tier releases so close to or in the middle of a multinational holiday. Also they have specifically said the msq for 6.0 is going to be very long, so perhaps from that alone the savage release will be later than usual. I do hope either will be the case because while most raiders won't be hugely negatively impacted by those dates, I don't like the idea that the world race would be favouring those who don't celebrate Xmas or have families who understand their raid commitments.