I too could take off a month straight if I so desired did we forget the part were there is people filling in for you while your gone? No job just shuts down because so and so is on vacation.
Nope, typically during the Winter month during the Holiday companies will do something called a Production âCode Freezeâ. This means that no new MAJOR updates will be pushed to the production servers. Now they can still be pushing minor bug fixes that are lined up and ready to go. But the production team support most likely is pushing bug fixes and changes that were lined up and ready to go before the Holiday even started.
Iâm assuming Blizz probably has a small skeleton crew of production support that rotate out for the Holidays, but I have no clue. Iâm guessing 90% of the balance team (classes), and PvP developers though are on vacation till at least tomorrow or the next day.
I mean for reference my Job we are in a code freeze until January 6th before we do any production pushes. This will take into account everyone off for the Holidays. We do have emergency Prod Ops support though for Tier 1/2 bugs/issues, but any Tier 3 development waits until after the holidays.
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Yeah no again the entire pvp team isnât just non existent for weeks, they are just not doing their job. They were live hotfixing raid bosses on December 23rd whilst the pvp team sat on their thumbs.
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bro itâs literally a holiday 2 weeks off is normal for most jobs go and do something productive in that time instead of qqâing on the forums, the devs are only human.
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Like I said I donât know Blizzâs Holiday schedule for their employees and developers. But Iâm guessing most Employees went on Holiday the 24th. That is why the last Hotfix changes for Race to World First happened on the 23rd.
But this is just my speculation.
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The devs werenât supposed to be on vacation 4 months ago when beta players told them thereâs a good reason 0 matchmaking games allow angry losers to zero other playersâresults
Christmas shmistmas but this was an unforced error
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you canât just throw money at coding. creativity and problem solving takes time. hopefully they are spending time fixing the game tho.
Ok they wouldâve been back the week between Christmas and new years. Regardless when was the last meaningful pvp update? Well before then. So keep throating blizz people like you are the reason they leave the game in shambles
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They probably put in a freeze on changes around the holiday season, its what we do, unless its a an absolute emergency. Then things kick back in one everyone comes back from break or vacations.
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Sorry dude this isnât your mud hut third world country businesses donât shut down for weeks at a time.
Dumb decisions donât equate to them not being in the office or on vacation. Of course they could have made these changes months ago and truthfully they should have. But that was a conscious decision by a PvP developer.
It does seem like they are planning on remedying that in 10.0.5âŠbut hopefully they push that change sooner.
But I reiterate a poor design decision doesnât equate to the developers just being MIA.
most salaried jobs do 
maybe not ur mcdonaldâs job tho
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The game is in fact working just fine
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I literally just explained to you that most IT and software development jobs give Holiday for the Christmas Eve through till about the 3rd of JanuaryâŠmy Job does this so Iâm assuming Blizz does it too.
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same here 10 char
Ironic you say that when I know you either donât have a job or call yourself an entrepreneur and make 10k a year. No business can afford to seize operations for weeks at a time.
you obviously have never worked a salaried job
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Thats what Iâm saying, buncha damn karens in here for sure
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Didnât they have a whole big solo shuffle blue post like 2 weeks ago that where they addressed most of the major issues people had with RSS? How is that radio silence?
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^^^ This. (although in my case itâs the 4th)
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