Anyone else think they should stagger when content comes out?

Battlegrounds, Summer of Suffering, Side quest all being released on Wednesdays leaves the rest of the week fairly dead meaning I’m barely playing at all on the days leading up to content releases. I feel like I’d be more engaged if we had this content released on different days.

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Furrymoosen

Not everyone does everything on day one. I tend to do everything day one as well, but it doesn't bother me. If anything, I almost prefer it. Once I've finished everything, I turn suicides back on (if I needed to turn them off) and just farm units until something pops back up.
The super daily event coming back soon may change things for you a bit too because it will give proper incentive to play at least for a few minutes every day.
Either way, Wednesday being launch day for content works well because it keeps things consistent and you never have to worry about missing something.

Buttehrs

I mean that's on you for doing stuff day 1.

EdisonLaw

I think you’re over doing it

Jackalus

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement

Buttehrs

They do stagger content though. Yes, it's always on a Wednesday, but alot of times it's multiple Wednesdays per month. Lately it's been a new side quest + objectives per week. Story content is always mid month etc.

Jackalus

Was just a thought, each to their own.

Theshadow

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement

Yes I agree. Releasing everything on a single day takes the excitement out of the other days. I mean something to look forward to. Me personally I try to do everything on day one(try). If I couldn't finish it on day one I would finish it on other days.

But the problem is for the past week there was no content and just regular Sidequest. What I did for the past week was spend some time doing Sidequest and then just login, open reunion crystal, do some aq fights and that's it.

The time I login is based on the crystal so every 7hrs. And I play for about 15mins and that is it. Sometimes I played for an hr testing champs in bg off season.

So releasing content on different days like they split the entry ticket on sq between two days could be done to balance things out.

WednesdayLength

Incursions usually comes out Fridays right?

Demonzfyre

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement

SoS has 2 weeks.
Side Quests have 30 days
BGs runs for 30 days.

What's the problem?

DNA3000

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement

How do you do Battlegrounds over a few days after the season starts?

GroundedWisdom

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement
How do you do Battlegrounds over a few days after the season starts?

Time machine, evidently.

JLordVileJ

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement
How do you do Battlegrounds over a few days after the season starts?
Time machine, evidently.

Duh

DNA3000

I didn’t say I do it all on day 1. I’ll do it over a few days and then be left with a few days of nothing. If it was released on say Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it would give us something to look forward to on more than just one day, possibly helping with engagement
Yes I agree. Releasing everything on a single day takes the excitement out of the other days. I mean something to look forward to. Me personally I try to do everything on day one(try). If I couldn't finish it on day one I would finish it on other days.

But the problem is for the past week there was no content and just regular Sidequest. What I did for the past week was spend some time doing Sidequest and then just login, open reunion crystal, do some aq fights and that's it.

The time I login is based on the crystal so every 7hrs. And I play for about 15mins and that is it. Sometimes I played for an hr testing champs in bg off season.

So releasing content on different days like they split the entry ticket on sq between two days could be done to balance things out.

There's a ton of problems trying to do that. The biggest one is that it isn't a trivial matter to deliberately go out of the way to stagger content release on different days of the week because there aren't actually very many good days to do that. It is basically the Patch Tuesday problem.

You don't want to release content on the weekend. That's obvious: there's no one in the office to deal with new content issues. You don't want to release content on Fridays, because if a problem comes up during the day you won't have people in the office to work on it if it extends more than a day (or you'll force people into the office on the weekend). And Mondays are problematic, because Mondays are often busy due to working on issues that cropped up on the weekend.

Really, the best days to release new content would be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. And the earlier in the week the better to have time to deal with issues. So Tuesday/Wednesday are the optimal days. This logic is pervasive: our scheduled maintenance days used to be Tuesday. And in the industry, updates and scheduled downtime happen on Tuedsay/Wednesday far more often than any other day. "Patch Tuesday" is what Microsoft people refer to the day when MS generally releases patches, but Microsoft didn't invent patch Tuesday, they just adopted what for many was already the most common day that updates were rolled out.

Delaying content an entire week is problematic just to space it out. And if your only real practical options are two days of the week, there's limits to how far you can go with spacing out content. And in fact both Tuesdays and Wednesdays are used at times to release content.