Chances are, it'll follow the same schedule as last year:
- Frontier won't address it on the forum because of their unrealistic expectation that people would remember when the Black Friday sales happened in all the preceding years.
- A group of players will accuse Frontier of "shoddy business practices" because they would have put it up sooner.
- Another group of players will remind the first group that Frontier has been perfectly consistent and reliable and there's no reason to panic.
- Thursday night will arrive, and cross into Friday at midnight in the Eastern Standard timezone. Black Friday sales have not appeared on the store by 12:01am EST. Panic ensues.
- Accusations will be made by some players that Frontier "does not care about" and "disrespects" their customers, and will cite as evidence that nothing has appeared in the store by 12:10am.
- Reminders will be given by other players that at 12:10am EST it's still hours before people even wake up in the UK, and normal business hours come much later. And that "Black Friday" is the day after a holiday not celebrated at all in the EU.
- By the time 12:am Friday reaches the Pacific Standard Timezone, full-blown panic will ensue, accusations and denial will set fire to the forums.
- After what is honestly a fairly SHORT time later, at a reasonable hour, Frontier will put up their Black Friday sale stuff on the store, and there will be much rejoicing, spending, and tears of joy that Frontier has not forgotten the players, despite evidence showing there was no reason or cause to believe they had.
- A few hours later, the first complaints about how much things cost on the Frontier store, despite there being no change in pricing from preceding years.
- A week later, the first complaints about how some "missed out" on the sale and that it wasn't fair, and that the things should be available year round
- A month later, everyone will forget all about it again till a week before next Black Friday.
Well that just made my morning
