Maintenance on EUROPEAN/US TIME GAMING

[Paksenarrion]

All Worlds Emergency Maintenance

I'm sure that there's something that they feel requires important fixing. While I'm not opposed to 33% rotation of each country getting the maintenance during their time, you do have to think of the employees of SE and what times they're available, and plans for any emergency techs they have to call in.

[Ilisidi]

Since the work day of the technicans was brought up. The servers are in Japan, the technicans are in Japan. Does 1am to 6am really fall into the normal work day for Japanese workers? Wouldn't it rather be sometime between 8-18 (23 to 9 UTC)?

[Delsus]

*sigh* not this again.

Basic business tactic, the largest number of people play in Japan, the least play in EU they try to inconviniance the least amount of people, ie EU players.

Thats the reason they do it it just business nothing racist at all.

/thread here.

[Malamasala]

Why not make it so maintenance only hits the "prime times" of those 5 time zones?

Probably because "prime time" is from 10 AM for people who do not work, and 6 PM for people who do work. So it is always "prime time" for someone. Personally though I wouldn't mind if we had maintenance during the day so that kids had to go out and play. Now it always hits evening when you want to relax after work.

[RAIST]

They've actually been trying to keep it somewhat balanced I guess. This one kicked off around midnight their time, lunchtime on the US east coast, 9am out west. So, it is actually more likely to be a reasonable time for services to be down for the US and JP.

Just sucks that EU usually gets stuck in the middle, loosing at least half their primetime most all the time. But there isn't much to be done when you are dealing with 5+ hour maintenance cycles I guess.

Until they find a way to reduce the downtimes, it's going to be a mess.

[Riggs]

I live in Europe and been playing since the US release and i agree the constant timing of maintenance (planned) hits us right between the hours of 6pm to 11pm. Which for those of us that work wipes out play on that day completly.

Fair is fair and its really about time someone else had a turn at this.

[wish12oz]

What the heck?
Its like midnight-5am in japan when most maintenance occurs, stop saying they're doing it during normal business hours.

They just schedule it for after JP prime time, plain and simple. Why they do this, I do not know because they have never said, but I would be willing to bet its because that's when the least amount of people are actually playing the game, even though on every server I've ever been on this is not the case, the real time the least amount of people are playing is actually right before JP prime time.

[Korpg]

They just schedule it for after JP prime time, plain and simple. Why they do this, I do not know because they have never said, but I would be willing to bet its because that's when the least amount of people are actually playing the game, even though on every server I've ever been on this is not the case, the real time the least amount of people are playing is actually right before JP prime time.

That is probably true.

And dang it, mods edited my last post! I was just joking >.>

[Tamoa]

That is probably true.

And dang it, mods edited my last post! I was just joking >.>

I read it before it was edited, I'm EU, you reeeeeeally hurt my feelings! :P

[JackDaniels]

<insert racist comment here>