Something I’ve always wondered. Why Tuesday, in the middle of the week?
Why not Monday, the first day of the week for Blizzard’s staff, for instance?
In EU, it’s Wednesday. So why Tuesday of all days?
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Monday holidays maybe?
does it matter when? we’re going to get a certain day for maintenance anyways.
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I always assumed it was some data set that said Tuesday morning was the lowest player count or something along those lines.
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Mondays people are catching up, having weekly planning meetings, slow from the weekend.
Tuesday you’ve had a day to make sure everything is correct and four days to fix things if they go wrong.
And you only push later in the week if you’re trying to make everyone work weekends.
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This is correct. I’ll see if I can find one of the original sources, but basically low activity day, plus avoiding a large number of holiday observed days.
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Because I have 8 alts now And need the days to run through all the gold and Dragon Racing quests, that is why.
WoW was launched on a Tuesday. It makes sense that subsequent weekly resets would also occur on Tuesday.
Yea, at this point its tradition. Star Trek Online and DCUO reset on thursdays and friday, and I think FFXIV does it on a wednesday, and you can’t really do it on a weekend because that is prime time in the aggregate. Can’t do it on mondays because problems that happen on monday take an entire week to fix statistically so it’d just be asking for trouble.
Because tuesday is taco tuesday and the game wants to celebrate by resetting everything and reminding you that you can get tacos and be happy because it’s tuesday.
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I know the real reason. I asked Metzen himself at Blizzcon 2009, and he whispered it in my ear.
Sadly, I’m not allowed to tell you.
It’s a secret.
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I like fake news.
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I think at the beginning it was because it was day/time with the least amount of impact on players as well as their employees. Several other MMOs do theirs on Tuesday mornings too.
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They went by metrics and that seems to be the most popular day for downtime for other games, websites, etc, as well.
Probably because the game launched on a Wednesday so Tuesday is day seven in the game’s week.
A lot of holidays on mondays and monday is the most common day workers call in sick because theres a 3 day window where they could get sick on friday/sat/sunday.
They can also double check a lot of stuff on monday before they push out the patch to live servers.
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Didn’t a lot of American studios like always release games on Tuesdays? I always figured it was to line up with that
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I think maybe because they don’t like Monday’s.
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But other games also do this, ESO, FFIV, etc other MMOs follow the trend of “tuesday maint”. There has to be a deeper reason beyond wow’s release date.
I don’t trust anyone who does like Mondays.