Why always on Tuesday

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Hi everyone,

Lately, I’ve been wondering why seasons in Diablo 4 always start on Tuesday. In my opinion, it would be much better if a new season began on Friday. This way, most players could enjoy the new content and challenges during the weekend, which is an ideal time for many of us to play.

What do you think about such a change? Perhaps it’s worth discussing this issue and trying to convince the game developers to change the start date of new seasons? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic.

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There is actually an unofficial rule in software world, never release anything on Friday because if something goes wrong everyone is off on the weekend. Your own people and client’s people wont be around to fix something if it goes wrong. Crowdstrike basically made this fundamental mistake.

And of course we know how buggy the launch of each season has been.

Monday is for meeting before final check. Tuesday is for release. Wednesday-Friday for putting out the fire you started on Tuesday.

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Because we dont like mondays, tralalaa.

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They are releasing it at start of the week so they have few days for fixing bugs before weekend.

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Never ever release code on a Friday. They do it on Tuesday because it gives them the majority of the work week to fix any issues.

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Why not pay the people who wants to fix stuff on the weekends double? Its a live service game.

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Yea Ive started replying to people at work that want me to deploy code changes on Friday as “we’re not crowdstriking this” we need to make that term stick across the software industry lol

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That’s a good one, I’m going to steal that quote please.

@Bitslappa, serious answer – when gaming companies are still laying people of left and right on top of the current actor strike, I highly doubt there is appetite to pay extra for weekend coverage. Even selling 1M battle passes is not going to go very far in covering that cost.

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Bro “Why they don´t pay extra money if they don´t have to?”

Like for real? :roll_eyes:

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If something happens they will have time to take care of it.

If something goes wrong late Friday night people will complain that they cannot play.

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Thats why you dont get bugfixes on a weekend.

Sorry Mr. President. But we cant protect you on weekends.

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It’s just a way of seeing how many people do not have jobs.

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Because that’s when the damage is

Damage on Tuesday’s

Baa Doom Tis!

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Then if theres issues, and you lose all weekend to queues/problems, you complain that you lost all weekend so the game should start on Tuesday.

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Question was already answered. Never release on a friday.
If there are problems with the new season, they will stay until monday.
Of course, friday would be the preferred day for the players but we don’t want developers getting burnout, too… :wink:

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Part of this stems from a Japanese culture law that game developers have to abide by. Something happened where people were ruining there lives and jobs due to people taking days off to play a new patch or expansion released on a Friday. These updates/patches/and expansions were moved to Tuesday.

You learned something today

It mighta been America and world of Warcraft related to. Idk look into it.

You learned something anyways

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Coming from WOW Im use to Tues updates. It kind of makes sense so that if there is an issue they can put a quick fix in before the weekend. I seem to recall STO and SWTOR updates being Tues as well. (Been awhile since I played them)

Really,D3 is the only game I think I played where updates were on a friday.

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Ya it is because there’s practically no content added.

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cos they don’t want to pay overtime for a weekend job if something goes wrong on Friday - saves money.

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I’ve been a software engineer for a long time and every job I have had has been salary exempt. That means no overtime. I bet all the devs at blizzard are classified salary exempt so I don’t think that’s the reason.

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