Guild Wars 2

So last month, the big patch occurred a day before the event started. I’m wondering if we can expect the same scheduling this month, or if the patch will be launched on Friday, the same day as the event. Thanks!

None of the timed content starts until Saturday (thats the first day Tixx shows up) so I imagine the patch will go live on Friday as scheduled. Its always a good idea to patch stuff in a day in advance in the case of something like a 1-day event, which is what the Karka event had as a kickoff, but since the start off this event is only going to add the Gem Store stuff and the 3 activities, it probably doesn’t need an advanced patch.

Thats a pure guess / conjecture, mind you.

Thursday was always patch day in GW1. Thats what I expect

Electro.4173:

None of the timed content starts until Saturday

Well, the Grove event starts Saturday, but according to the Wintersday schedule, the mini-games and wonderland will already be available Friday, though not sure what time.
So I’m thinking Thursday.

Don’t mean to burst your bubble Electro but i believe things actually star happening from the 14th (Friday) – Event schedules states that on the 14th we can speak to someone near the snow globe to take part in :

1 – The Jump puzzle
2 – The snowball fight
3 – The bell choir

Or at least this is my understanding anyway, otherwise i really don’t see why the 14th of December would even be mentioned – never mind having a list of new features below tht date.

Usually GW2 patches pretty close to event start time, I’m going to suggest the patch will be early Friday morning PST. About 2 hours prior to event start time.

The activities start on Friday, yes. I’m not arguing that at all.

But the activities are not time-sensitive, at least in any sort of strict way. They run the entire length of the event. There’s no big reason to patch them in advance because if there are a few bugs to iron out with them, then its not a huge issue because there’s still more than 2 weeks to go on them. The Grove on the other hand is a 1-day thing. If there were bugs with it (or if there were bugs with the Karka event kickoff as a previous example) it would be a much bigger problem. Which would mean they should patch in advance to make sure nothing goes wrong, so that the somewhat limited duration of the part wouldn’t be cut short.

Since the start of the event is just the 3 activities and they run the entire duration of the event, it doesn’t really call for an advanced patch, at least not as much as if the kickoff was a 1-time or 1-day event.

But again thats just conjecture on my part. I wouldn’t be particularly suprised if they did patch on Thursday, I just think Friday is a bit more likely.