Honestly I'm not sure how much of an exception he is. I've always had a week at least at Christmas time off and always been able to play during that time period. For example I'll get 10 days shortly in a row I could play test if there was an Alpha running. If one was running over even scheduled to start next week I'd drop the money on the 2nd Tier pack right now. But nothing is scheduled nothing is listed for when other than Q1 2022....And well sorry but Q1 2022 is when Lost Ark launches so I'll be over there. Not having play tests during the period when many many many people in my experience have an extended period to try a game simply hurts the game.