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Father's day is only one day. Do you guys wake up your dads at 5 a.m. Sunday and follow him around until he goes to bed that night because it's Father's day? I mean, there's a difference between spending time with dear ol' dad and not leaving the poor bugger alone. :P
The event starts at 9 a.m. Friday morning (PDT) and runs through Sunday evening. There is plenty of time to get mad double XP even without ignoring your dad and convincing him your a heartless videogame-obsessed monster. Really!
I work on Friday. That means that there will be hours --
hours! -- when that double XP will just be wasting away while I earn my pay. Then the time I'll spend eating, sleeping, in the shower, out enjoying the sun...all that time wasted when I could be glued to my PC earning double XP!
Somehow I'll get through. I suspect those celebrating Father's day will manage as well.
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I agree with you whole-heartedly. Even if some people do spend all day Sunday with their father, that still leaves half of Friday and all of Saturday.
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Unless, of course, you're the dad like I am with several kids coming in on Friday and staying the weekend.
Now, I'm not about to miss a weekend with the kids to play a video game and I won't get my Depends in a knot about missing another 2XP weekend, but it is the kind of issue you'd hope someone might consider before scheduling an event.
Obviouisly they can't take into account everyone's schedule, but -- and this is just a wild guess -- I suspect a majority of people playing the game are fathers themselves and/or have fathers. So, taking Fathers Day into consideration before scheduling a 2XP weekend doesn't seem like an extraordinary expectation.
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They did take Father's Day into account -- it's mentioned directly in Positron's announcement (Positron also happens to be a father himself).
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Mentioning something and actually taking it into consideration are two very different things.
Now, maybe they did take it into consideration & I simply disagree with their conclusions (or possibly I'm not taking into consideration some unknown internal issues they also had to balance). However, overall it does seem like this particular weekend with a specific holiday that many people celebrate one way or another may not have been the best choice considering the many non-holiday weekends available.
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I'm not a dad and live so far from my own father that the only interruption Father's Day will have on my XPing is the length of a telephone call.
Even so, trying to put myself in the shoes of the Devs, I have a hard time coming up with a good reason why I'd schedule a Double XP event for a weekend that does affect so many people . For the same reason, I probably wouldn't schedule it for a 4th of July weekend even though it's not a holiday my country celebrates.
I could almost understand if it slipped their minds that this was going to be Father's Day weekend, but as the earlier poster mentioned the fact was acknowledged in the announcement.
I have to agree that, even though there was an acknowledgement, absent some unknown factors the lack of consideration seems odd.
