Season 22 starting date

[Kirottu-2131]

Yes, there is now. There’s been an official statement about it.

This Friday Please

It won’t be this Friday, and I’d like to take a moment to explain why. Early during Patch 2.6.7’s development, our engineering team raised concerns about the extremely small window in between patch launch and season launch. In short, they were concerned that, as often happens in software development, if something critically breaks with deployment of the patch, they might not have time to resolve it before the Season launches globally. Three days isn’t very long to create, test, and deploy a hot…

@Nevalistis

We decided the compromise was to have at least one week downtime between patch deployment and season start. That gives us a more forgiving window to address critical issues, should they arise, and we plan to continue using this format moving forward to ensure we’re launching each Season in as strong and stable a state as possible. It also allows us to provide a more reliable Season start date going forward.

The previous gaps between season 18&19, 19&20 and 20&21 were all 12 days.

As such, 13th day will not be the season start.

Having only a few day gap from patch deployment to season start has several times already bitten Blizzard’s rear end. And with the issues plagueing PTR in mind do you really want to risk botching the season from the start?