6.18 Cross DC travel should have come out BEFORE summer not after

[Zer0ofTime]

Just way more logical for people who have friends to play with before summer starts than wait till after it's over.

[TheMightyMollusk]

What are these "friends" you speak of?

[Zer0ofTime]

I heard someone talk about them once. I'll let you know when I find some what they are!

[Midareyukki]

It's all a ploy!

If you think about it, most people start working after summer vacations. That means less people playing. Less people playing = Less people overloading the servers. Which means they can better control\gauge the server load of the data center travel system!

/tinfoil hat

[ZeraSkiratea]

Just way more logical for people who have friends to play with before summer starts than wait till after it's over.

i dont know in what world you live... but.. it isnt even summer or it JUST started depending on definition(meterlogical, or astronomical being 31st of may and 21st of june in the norther hemisphere respectivly)
patch 6.18 is planned for July as far as we know.... thats smag dab in the middle of summer regardless of definition
Most countrys also have Summer holidays for schools starting end of May to end of july and going between 6 weeks and over 3months(germany and the US as examples here(latest german schools start summer holiday is end of july(or 1st of august), going into mid to late september and earliest is end of may, going into late mid july ) which OBVIOUSLY will only impact people still going to school. which isnt to ignore tho.


Case and point "summer hasnt even really started yet if we go Astronomical.
at worst it will be implemented at halway trough summer, smack dab in the middle of summer vacation for a considerable number of school goers.

[Grann-Goro]

It doesn't matter in the long run.

[Kazelus]

Hum... I may have missed the calendar for the expected release date of 6.18 but I thought it would released before end of June... Since 6.2 should come mid august with the 4 months delay between two major updates, no?

[Shibi]

i dont know in what world you live... but.. it isnt even summer or it JUST started depending on definition(meterlogical, or astronomical being 31st of may and 21st of june in the norther hemisphere respectivly)
patch 6.18 is planned for July as far as we know.... thats smag dab in the middle of summer regardless of definition
Most countrys also have Summer holidays for schools starting end of March to end of july and going between 6 weeks and over 3months(germany and the US as examples here(latest german schools start summer holiday is end of july(or 1st of august), going into mid to late september and earliest is end of may, going into late mid july ) which OBVIOUSLY will only impact people still going to school. which isnt to ignore tho.


Case and point "summer hasnt even really started yet if we go Astronomical.
at worst it will be implemented at halway trough summer, smack dab in the middle of summer vacation for a considerable number of school goers.

Have to admit, I've got Déjà vu on this one. We had the forum argument about seasons last year!

[ZeraSkiratea]

Have to admit, I've got Déjà vu on this one. We had the forum argument about seasons last year!

thanks for that laugh.


people really need to remember the difference between meterological, and astronomical seassons.
Meterological cares about the weather(aka "meteorology"), so summer starts earlier. at the START of a month(makes it easier for calculations and averages etc)

Astrological only care about the Earths rotation around the sun, so it starts later, regardless of what day it is, at the Summer equinox(spring at Vernal equinox, fall at Autumnal equinox, and Winter at the Winter solstice)and seassons arent quite 3 months long as well(but slightly under and over by a few days each)

[NekoMataMata]

Besides the whole argument of when "summer" or any other season actually occurs...

I think after summer is a good time for it. I'm assuming it's not just going to be visiting other DCs but doing content with other DCs too(maybe a queue merge?). To me, after summer when people start focusing on work more or go back to school is the perfect time for it.

I don't know if anyone remembers queueing for alliance raids or frontlines during the fall/spring during the patches in between expansions, but usually, there'd only be about 8-10 hours worth of time where you could queue into those(at least on Crystal). When I first started it took me three days to get into the three alliance raids required for MSQ because I was logging in too late in the evening(basically had to wait for the weekend). If Cross DC also merges the queue, maybe it won't be so bad.