If HTC is going to shut down for the 4th, isn't it in our best interests to release it on the 5th or 9th to be fully staffed and prepaired to fix any bugs we will find in the release? When is the last time any of your companies released a prodect at a holiday and forced the support staff to work through it? Yes Hitech and Pyro are the support, but, in this case will Mrs Hitech and Mrs Pyro consent to allowing their husbands to pull a boner like this and screw a family holiday?
When is the last time any of you had your head 100% in the game and ready to pull all nighters a day before a holiday? Debuging for traditional kinds of code interaction problems with our plethora of different PC and Laptops takes time with the myrad of DXDiags and other error captures we send in during the first week of a new version.
Let alone Skuzzy having to read and decide which rule to apply to the usual "Your (F)uppd new release screwed my game play" PO'd post, whines and greivence mongering that the game is broken and this release show cases it to the world.
Let them have a holiday.