V2 Live-Service Calendar Operations — Fighting Game

@maat/strategy remains the source of truth for live-service planning. V2 publishes the projected player-facing calendar at apps/v2/web/calendar/ and the in-game roadmap widget consumes the same projected contract.

Publication Rules#

Publish a six-month forward calendar with confirmed, planned, and exploratory tier flags.
Use confirmed only after production, localization, legal, platform, and live-ops owners have signed the event.
Use planned for scheduled work that still carries normal certification, licensor, or partner risk.
Use exploratory for events that need partner approval, family or estate consent, certification capture approval, or design review.
Every calendar shift requires a community announcement, the reason for the shift, and an in-game roadmap update.

Seasonal Themes#

The seasonal rotation covers every month:

January-February: Lunar New Year
February: Valentine's
March: International Women's Day
April: Easter / Cherry Blossom
May: Star Wars Day, with licensor approval or a generic space-opera fallback
June: Pride Month
July: Summer Festival
August: Anniversary
September: Back-to-Training preseason
October: Halloween / Dia de Muertos
October-November: Diwali
November: Thanksgiving
December: Winter Holiday / Hanukkah / Christmas / Kwanzaa

Every seasonal event must include themed cosmetics, localized messaging, and a per-region disablement option for themes that are culturally inappropriate in a given territory.

Anniversary And Retrospective#

Year-1, Year-2, and Year-N anniversaries include one free fighter, one free stage, one free cosmetic bundle, launch throwback events, an anniversary livestream with roadmap reveal, and an active-player commemorative profile flair.

The year-end retrospective publishes hours played, fighter pick rates, tournament highlights, charity totals, and shipped content drops.