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RyTink's avatar
7 years ago

Why Monday release?

Not sure what the thinking is here. For me, a Battlefield fan since the original, I have to sit back as a human being that has responsibilities as a father and provider (don't live in my parents basement) and wonder why they'd choose to release on a Monday as opposed to say a Friday? I understand that in a week this wont matter to most, but still, I work for a living and my kids go to school. It's not like we're going to be able to play BF5 this week. This week/weekend coming up is Thanksgiving with a couple days of family stuff and shopping, which leaves most of this coming weekend relegated to those plans. In other words it'll be two weeks before I think about purchasing BF5 whereas had it been release on the 16th we'd have been playing all this weekend. What I'm asking I guess is why do this? It's going to give you less than favorable or askew the numbers. Sorry guys, but after the Battlefront 2 debacle on PC, I'm already apprehensive. Looks like I'll be waiting to purchase until "after the fact" reviews are out now that I have the luxury of time. My advice, don't drop the ball on this one please?!

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  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
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    7 years ago

    Hey @RyTink, Battlefield V Standard Edition is actually out today, Tuesday the 20 and not on a Monday. The Deluxe Edition has been available to play since last week.

    Tuesday is traditionally the day new games are released, it's been the norm since the early 90s and started with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. In the weeks leading up to the release of Sonic, the publishers knocked around a few ideas as to the best way to release the game so as to make it fair as before then, games released on different dates in different places. For Sonic they decided to brand the release day as Sonic 2sday and shipped stock to stores around the world so that the game could release on the same day everywhere and based on the success of the release Tuesdays became the release date for most media. You will find that most CDs and DVDs/Blu-Rays also release on a Tuesday in the US as a result. 

    Darko

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