Wow, this boss understands the need to play a new game on its launch date. A Japanese company decided to give its employees the day off on March 26 after noticing that a lot of them were booking the day off when the new Monster Hunter game will be launched. The company, Mark-On Ltd, decided to make the day an official holiday:
The Huffington Post Japan spoke to Hiyama-san over the phone, where they said that several employees had already requested vacation on the 26th so they could play the new Monster Hunter game, which led them to make the day an official holiday. Naturally, Mark-On's employees have been grateful for the decision, and many Monster Hunter fans on Twitter have been wishing their own companies would implement a similar policy.
The Monster Hunter series is incredibly successful in Japan, with every new release seeing enormous attention. It's not a dissimilar situation to that of Dragon Quest, which traditionally sees so much interest on launch days that Square began releasing new entries on Saturdays to stop children skipping school – a fact which became its own urban myth.
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