The way you make decisions is rather strange; for instance, you’ve failed to account for the fact that for some people, Christmas falls on January 7th, not December 25th as it does for you. In the future, when drawing up schedules, please take both New Year’s and Christmas into consideration for ALL nationalities and countries.
But in any case, thank you for at least this solution.
We hope we’ll be free during the holidays.
So, I was unaware that was a thing. Googled it and yeah, fair enough:
" Orthodox Christians and Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. This represents roughly 250 to 300 million people globally who belong to churches that still follow the Julian calendar for religious holidays. Because the Julian calendar runs 13 days behind the widely used Gregorian calendar, December 25 on the Julian calendar aligns exactly with January 7 on the standard civil calendar."
I don’t expect the devs to do another Xmas week then, but perhaps they could add something, going forwards, to acknowledge that? Just like they acknowledge other days (4th of July for instance) with pets and minor stuff, even though not everyone celebrates those days.
ty for moving gw out of the new years eve date Christmas and new years weeks are more for family
I’m over here just hoping my platform still allows me to play GoW during the holidays.
Based on the droves of Apple users leaving the game for good, the lack of fix by now has clutching my figurative pearls.
Only like 5 guilds that even play GW’S on ps5 now in number 1 guild only like 1 guild broke 7k total last wars
Matchmaking is worse after the update for GW’S and absolutely destroyed in pvp like 1 in 20 is an actual person rest are ghost accounts don’t even get 40 base vp on 3 trophy
Imagine not to be able doin f i v e fights a day… 
I say leave the last GW of 2026 as scheduled. Most of the Christmas activities will occur the week prior and New Year’s week isn’t as big a deal as the other Christmas holiday on January 7. GW really isn’t that big a time sink for most people.
It’s been changed to Expanded Faction - Werewoods
If anything, it’s because I don’t want the Guild Wars to start when the studio is closed for multiple days.
For you, perhaps. For the entire country of Scotland, nope. Hogmanay is way bigger than Xmas and occurs on the 31st. While more people celebrate on the 7th, assuming the 31st isn’t a big deal is a problem. The devs are having to balance a lot of important holidays at that time of year. Again, that’s why I’d suggest inserting something more neutral, that people can play if they want, but not something guilds usually focus heavily on. And push guild war back until after all the holidays are done.
They’ll never be able to make everyone happy, though.
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There are so many holidays that we can’t ever make the schedule work for everyone globally.
It is currently more tailored to the western holidays/public holidays, as we as a studio are in Australia and 505 as our publishers are in the US.
Zuul-Emo, as Jeto beat me to it, there is probably some holiday important to someone every day of the year. I think it’s better if they keep a regular schedule rather than changing things up. I did suggest in a previous post that they reduce the number of players that count for the final GW score from 30 to 25, so people can live their lives without a guild needing every player every GW.