Worker Unite - Updates for the Working Man (and Woman)

This is a discussion for those brave men and women that are working during the latest new content release of GW, waiting to get home... :-)

Is anyone else looking forward to the day that ANet will release new content updates on Friday evenings/Saturday mornings as opposed to Thursday evenings/Friday mornings as they have in the past?

During prior updates (including the early access and actual release of Factions) the content was made available while the working man/woman was...well... at work, or had to work the day it was released. By the time most of us get home (East coast or West coast), any new content (items and such) has been farmed significantly by the people who either don't work or stay home all day.

It's not a big deal, just a minor observation and the opportunity to start a discussion that's not related to all the new drops that people are finding today :-)

It probably has more to do with the fact that they work during the week and would rather not work during the weekend to fix any bugs. Updates should've already been tested to some extent so I hope they aren't releasing prior to the masses getting of work so that they can have bugs worked out first. It really pays to be unemployed if you play GW alot lol..

BTW, I got my new Totem Axe last night and I really love the look of that ice hammer in Talus :-)

It would be nice... but the folks at ANet would like to have a weekend as well as us. For every release, there's a battery of people standing there hoping it works so they can go home.

Chik-Fil-A's the same way. On Sunday I'm like: I want my friggin chicken sandwich, and they're like: tough, we don't work Sunday :-(

lol

*looks at the clock*
>.>
*pokes her ipod*
<.<
*sigh*
I WANNA GO HOME AN GET THAT TOTEM AXE >.<

Well even if you were here, would you want to go out, farm it fast, and then be one of the hundrenfds of people trying to sell it, undercutting each others pirces in LA and Kaieng?

In other news, its friday afternoon and I bet there are still more to discover.

A thing you're not taking into consideration here is the different Timezones. Based upon them, there will allways be a place where someone can't instantly get the update because he has to work/study/whatever. Given that in any of those timezones are quite a few Guildwars Players, whom should A-Net judge for? And whom against?
They really can't make a fair decision here, so they simply save themselves the hassle and release it early during their day of work so they can fix possible major bugs during their normal working time.
Releasing an update at saturday or even sunday is not really fair towards the developers because the work would then be weekend work. Come on, those developers have family too (i guess). While you (no specific person) can clearly make the statement that they should work on saturday and sunday, i can totally understand that they don't want to. Having time for your family is allready hard enough in the modern world.
A simple "work saturday/sunday" can be quite devastative on a family.

yeah I was meaning around midnight somewhere (maybe central) 'friday night/saturday morning' where you're sure that the day workers are done on either coast for the most part. from what I've seen of several content updates they are done at different times for the different servers (I remember the Korean servers getting some updates before European and American servers during the holidays), so that shouldn't be a problem..

as far as the not fair part, I agree. I tell that to my wife all the time when she has to work on the weekend (she's in retail and as you know retail does most of its business on the weekend when the customers are off), so I don't blame them for that at all (in fact this isn't a blame post, just a 'we arent there so lets talk about something' post lol)..

EDIT: Added emphasis yet again to point out that the times would be relative to the severs - Friday Night/Saturday Morning CST on American Servers, Friday Night/Saturday Morning best Korean time on the Korean Servers - for those out there that may be dense, illiterate, or impatient to read further..

I work weekends =P

Maybe they release on thursdays so they have friday to fix anything they broke before the weekend comes in >.>

/signed for the working man!

/signed!

Don't be so American!!!

It's a worldwide game remember. With many different time zones. So when they release something Thursday your time its because that makes it Friday night somewhere else.

Don't be so hasty to jump on the bashing bandwagon without reading the thread.

European and American servers could obviously be done at different times. As I recall the Korean updates for the holiday events were done around 12 hours or so prior to the American servers (and somewhere in between for the European ones). It was content, which meant that yes, people co go into international districts and trade stuff before the other regions got it.

Yes, remember that Europe exist too... i mean we have favour all the time so we're hard to forget.





cheap shot i know

Point is, there's no 100% convenient time for updates to be released. Tough-luck comes to mind

Only one solution for us working folk....

Quit our jobs and play GW ALL DAY LONG!!!

hmm maybe the updates should come out on monday...lol

lol must be a weekend worker :-) ^^^^

nope at work right now.. but if it came out on monday it would just be a overall crappy time for most =fair lol

Don't be so hasty to jump to conclusions without reading what they wrote. He made an important point regarding time zones, not servers.

Organizing an update for American servers based on an East Coast time zone would leave those on the West Coast just as screwed as they'd be if they were simply on a different server located on a different continent, for the exact same reasons and due to the exact same circumstances that people are already complaining about.

Blanket updates are good; some benefit & some don't. They can't and won't be able to please everyone due to the simple fact that players living on the same contintent don't work, study, and play at the same times.

Unless everyone that plays on a server agrees to a strict schedule of play at this time, work at this time, study at this time, eat/sleep/drink/screw at this time, then there's not a damned thing ANET can do about it. I, for one, don't forsee this happening and so I'm not going to complain if I miss out on something due to my own schedule.