New Season 29 May Start not good

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

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yunharla3000#5123 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

There is no such thing as a world wide holiday.

No but there are holidays that are observed by a significant number of people. And it might be worth for a company to consider those in their planning. Or why else do you think companies do events for x-mas?

And how long are said holidays exactly in each country celebrating it?

You understand that it's holidays and not new leagues release.

To simplify it for you: Holidays can span multiple days. A release not.

Not even considering timezones.

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yunharla3000#5123 wrote:

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yosheee89#3525 wrote:

because the majority player base of these games are people that celebrate christmas and usually the devs do too

And during Chinese New Year a lot of companies swap their employers & consumers or what?

Or is it like this: Whenever a good chunk of your customers, and that could also just be a large minority, has something going on, businesses should pay attention cause that makes them more money (example: when companies needs to ship physical products, good luck getting that contract fulfilled when there's a holiday going on)

Whatever a good chunk means right? And since we don't have numbers from GGG sales team, I guess people should just voice their stuff and we'll see how it turns out.

[edit] oh and yeah, since you brought up that specific group. You may have noticed that a bunch of those countries also have holidays around that same time. You know, ascension, Labor Day, etc..

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BekoTR#4744 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

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yunharla3000#5123 wrote:

No but there are holidays that are observed by a significant number of people. And it might be worth for a company to consider those in their planning. Or why else do you think companies do events for x-mas?

And how long are said holidays exactly in each country celebrating it?

You understand that it's holidays and not new leagues release.

To simplify it for you: Holidays can span multiple days. A release not.

Not even considering timezones.

Honestly, look, working people, my friend, everyone works now, as you know. They can combine their holiday breaks with their vacation time and take up to a week off. Imagine 50,000 more players playing the game during that week! Just like you have Christmas, we have these holidays, and we can use these holidays for gaming activities. So it would be better for us. After the holidays, it's back to work, my friend. And more players always means better for trade, marketing, and the company; a season with a high number of active players means the game lasts much longer.

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yosheee89#3525 wrote:

Chinese players are the majority in many games (not all western games), this is why you see chinese new year themes in some live service games.

Can you name a game that has changed launch dates based on chinese new year?

The only holidays that should influence an event/launch date should be holidays that directly impact the developers. It's not the developers job to calander watch various world populations

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yunharla3000#5123 wrote:

erm, yeah:

- You obviously don't even know what Chinese New Year is. For the future, when encountering unknown topics read at least the introduction on wikipedia.

- People can just open up Steam, Amazon, Sony, Microsoft, etc. and see when their favorite store is all shiny with big percentages. (not to mention all the in-game thingys that also do this down to the tiniest indi-releases)

And before telling me how my job looks like:

- 2 days ago I made a pull request about Egyptian time cause it's amazing for unit tests (Read: Daylight saving time in Egypt on wikipedia :P)

- I also have those customers from all those cool places.

- And yes when planning releases I look up those things about 2 years ahead of time, cause I don't want to crunch/rush things.

- And next week my German holiday will affect the release of my colleagues from India, cause I planned that (and the 14th as fallback) for the POE release

... yeah, didn't work out I guess. So I just wait for winter to no-live the game cause only 3 days left for some summer break. (the acute reader might've caught that earlier, instead of cherry picking) :)