This troll gets it. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to take off that week, and in fact many of us will be working extra the week of Thanksgiving. You’d think a multiplayer game would consider the players and pick a launch window that offers maximum opportunity for engagement rather than just appeasing shareholders.
Honestly though, the bigger concern is season one starting right before Christmas. I feel like that could have at least waited until January, as Christmas is a bigger deal globally than Thanksgiving. Again, player engagement is a real thing and that metric should be one of the top concerns. You’ll have a lot of guilds taking off right around then so people can spend time with their families without feeling like they have to spend time on a video game to avoid falling behind. This timing feels more like Blizzard was worried about competing with Cyberpunk on Twitch than anything else.
Besides, what happened to this: