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[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

Why does MWO patch on Tuesdays?

I'm off through Monday, and Tuesday I go back to work. It seems every time I have a chance to be off work the day I go back there's the patch! I really wish they'd move patch day to Friday morning. Then I would almost never miss a patch!

[Sigifrid]

Because that is when patching is convenient for the devs maybe?

[Tennex]

gives them a monday to prep the patch.

it doesn't really need to revolve around you lol

Edited by Tennex, 15 February 2013 - 08:38 AM.

[Redshift2k5]

Tuesdays were determined a long time ago to be the statistically lowest traffic time of the week for online games. I would bet it is still true.

For every person who has bad timing on Tuesday, there will be people with the exact same issue for every other day of the week. It's unfortunate that tuesday doesn't work well for you, but it won't be changing.

[Chunkylad]

Most games patch on Tuesday, it is just kind of a thing companies do. For instance WoW, maintenance and updates always occur on Tuesday at the same time, no real explanation. My guess is because it isn't Monday where everyone is zombies and might screw something up, but still fresh enough in the week to not slack on it.

And in response to above... Servers go down after I am done with my first class and come up right before my last class... I have never had a class during the server maintenance periods

Edited by Chunkylad, 15 February 2013 - 09:21 AM.

[stjobe]

Werewolf486, on 15 February 2013 - 08:37 AM, said:

Why does MWO patch on Tuesdays?

I'm off through Monday, and Tuesday I go back to work. It seems every time I have a chance to be off work the day I go back there's the patch! I really wish they'd move patch day to Friday morning. Then I would almost never miss a patch!

They did it just to spite you. Just like all the other minor inconveniences in your life, someone did it just to spite you. After all, you ARE the centre of the universe.

[TheMadTypist]

I think it's just guarding against worst-case scenarios.Patching on tuesdays allow them more time in the office to prepare and deploy emergency hotfixes. If you deploy a patch on a friday that breaks a key aspect of the game or reduces stability to the point the game is unplayable, you'll be leaving a significant chunk of the playerbase showing up for prime-time and getting a bad taste in their mouths.

Look at how upset people were when Planetside 2 patched and hotfixed on a saturday, breaking the game's vehicle weapons and some turrets for the rest of that saturday and a significant portion of sunday (and they had to call the team in on their day off, too). It was a problem for less than two days, but it got them a hell of a lot more bad feedback than previous issues dealt with during the workweek.

[Mister Blastman]

Why do asteroids explode over mother Russia?

[WVAnonymous]

The patch will be scheduled to have been finished the Friday prior. That gives the weekend if things get hairy and salvage the code.
Monday will be the final code check.
Patch Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday for disaster recovery and hot fixes before the Friday night traffic starts up.

Rinse and repeat. The shift to every other Tuesday may have been driven by the repeated hot fix requirements, so they added more time to digest the code.

[Congzilla]

Tuesday is Canadian Friday, we're sorry eh.

[OnLashoc]

Mister Blastman, on 15 February 2013 - 09:28 AM, said:

Why do asteroids explode over mother Russia?

You Sir have won the day.

[buttmonkey]

Mister Blastman, on 15 February 2013 - 09:28 AM, said:

Why do asteroids explode over mother Russia?

because russia is gods poopng ground, and god poops asteroids ^^

[Ghogiel]

Werewolf486, on 15 February 2013 - 08:37 AM, said:

I really wish they'd move patch day to Friday morning.

No developer patches on a friday.

[Mister Blastman]

buttmonkey, on 15 February 2013 - 09:57 AM, said:

because russia is gods poopng ground, and god poops asteroids ^^

Says the buttmonkey.

[Rofl]

Life exists to **** you off. Patching is a part of life.

[IceSerpent]

Werewolf486, on 15 February 2013 - 08:37 AM, said:

Why does MWO patch on Tuesdays?

Because reasons (i.e. PGI wants to patch on Tuesday).

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I really wish they'd move patch day to Friday morning. Then I would almost never miss a patch!

Patching any production system on a Friday is big no-no.

[BlackWidow]

Two reasons.

1. If gives them a day after the weekend to make sure everything is good to go.
2. So many major holidays happen on Mondays (here in US anyway) that it makes more sense on Tuesday.

[Rakashan]

Well, as you said. Mondays are commonly a day off. You'd hate it if they patched on a day you had off.

No code shop wants to release on Fridays or weekends because if you screw up your weekend goes up in a puff of debugging. As many long weekends start on Friday which makes Thursday the same boat.

That leaves Tuesday and Wednesday. Most code shops pick Tuesday but not all.