Quote Originally Posted by Avoidy View Post
This is a global game that takes money from places other than Japan, yet every time a decision like this has to be made, Japanese priorities come first. I'm sick of Square trying to have all the benefits of a global game (soooooooo much additional revenue) without addressing the challenges of running a global game. We were sitting here dealing with this a couple of years ago too, when they arbitrarily decided to take the game down for maintenance on Halloween, ruining people's in-game event plans on NA, and the excuse players dreamt up for square was "it's okay because japan doesn't care about halloween like we do," like bruh. They'll sure as hell take our money though, right.

The rest of your post I actually agree a lot with. I even edited my post to include my thoughts on it because it's been bubbling up in the back of my head for a while now.
I mentioned this on a different thread. Releasing this today might also generate more interest because there are plenty of people who have time off for the holiday, so they have more time to play. Time will tell how this experiment works out.