Quote Originally Posted by Marancil View Post
Why before Thanksgiving?
Stop trying to impose US Holidays on the schedule... frankly, I couldn't care less when it happens as long as it happens and as soon as safely possible. Code and Servers are not ruled by Holidays. One may have an ambition to make an effort before a certain date, but you know as well as I that may move either way in the calendar.
The reason why that might be important is that Thanksgiving, travel wise, vacation wise, is more important to the USA than any other holiday including Christmas. Thanksgiving is on a Thursday, Friday is always a day off, and people travel usually on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Many people take the entire week off, and some companies run on a lower support schedule for that week. Many companies have deadlines for projects to be finished before that week, because they know that if it gets in to that week, projects will be delayed for that week as you won't get much work done.

For Turbine, it probably means that THAT week, you will have a MUCH slower response to tickets in regards to failed transfers, kinship name changes, etc.... so they probably wouldn't want to schedule a server merge during that week. Since they also had said they were scheduling the server hardware upgrades for "late fall", a holiday that could disrupt a full work week becomes very important to all players, regardless of where you are in the world.

I have a feeling that they will have taken this into account, and based on last week's experience, they may implement a Monday/Thursday schedule, making the transfers a lot quicker. We can only wait till tomorrow morning and see what they come up with.