Hey guys, as many of you know, we changed WvW match reset times from Friday to Saturday as part of the Heart of Thorns release. We made this change primarily because sometimes we need to run hotfix builds on Fridays, and with the expansion launch we expected to need to do this more than usual. However we don’t run builds on the weekend, so this allowed reset nights to be safe from interruption. This was a highly controversial change at the time, and as part of the change we agreed to consider changing reset back to Friday, once we were past the hectic HoT launch period.
So here we are, strongly considering changing reset nights back to Fridays, but we have a couple questions first:
1) Now that you guys have settled around Saturday resets, do you still want resets changed back to Fridays? Or at this point, is changing the reset day back to Friday more disruptive than just leaving it as is?
Assuming the community overall agrees that changing reset time back to Friday is the way to go, we next need to decide on the time of day for the reset for both NA and EU players. This is important because eventually we’ll want to do hotfixes on Fridays again, and we won’t want to disrupt reset nights then either. On days that we do run a hotfix on Friday, we generally aim for it to be around 4:30PM PST/PDT, though they can technically happen at any time. We should also blackout +/- 1 hour around that time as our hotfix window, since while we aim for that time, it’s not an exact process.
Our tentative plans are:
- NA resets on 6PM/7PM PST/PDT Fri (2:00 UTC Sat)
- EU resets on 10AM/11AM PST/PDT Fri (18:00 UTC Fri.)
2) Do the above times seem reasonable to you guys? If not, what time do you propose that you believe would please a greater percentage of the community, while still not overlapping with our hotfix window?
*Edit: Corrected the listed hotfix time to 4:30PM PST/PDT, rather than 4:30PM/5:30PM PST/PDT. Thanks Veron.
(edited by Tyler Bearce.3427)
An hour after the daily reset was great where it was. Remember there are people playing with jobs, kids, etc and can’t stay up all night even on a Friday. So they should be able to enjoy a couple of hours of reset action.