Vary Maint times PLEASE!!!

[Horadrim]

I would hazard a guess that part of the planning may be based on the diversity of the playerbase as well. As in, try to take things off line when it is most likely to affect the least number of players. At least, that's how we used to plan things when we had to take a webserver down for a client. Often times when you are crossing time zones, you have very narrow windows to work in when traffic is lightest, so a lot of thought goes into these decisions (usually).

I'd say that's about the swing of it. Mid-day in the US is a great time to do it because most of us are at work. 10:00 PDT correlates to 6:00 PM in Japan -- making it a decent time for an update for a Japanese game, since it ends right around 9:00 PM.

I just wish they didn't make us wait until the update starts to release the notes.

[Tamoa]

I'd say that's about the swing of it. Mid-day in the US is a great time to do it because most of us are at work. 10:00 PDT correlates to 6:00 PM in Japan -- making it a decent time for an update for a Japanese game, since it ends right around 9:00 PM.

I just wish they didn't make us wait until the update starts to release the notes.

This update starts at 2AM JST and ends at 4:30AM JST.

[Horadrim]

This update starts at 2AM JST and ends at 3:30AM JST.

Thought it said 10 PDT?

Oh well. All i really care about is the update notes, I probably won't even get on today unless they add RUN/GEO AF.

EDIT:

Oh, I see, the time zone converter I used was off. It -is- 10:00 PDT so 10:00 PDT = 2:00 JST.

Good to know... not sure why it said 6:00 PM...?

[hiko]

Thought it said 10 PDT?

Oh well. All i really care about is the update notes, I probably won't even get on today unless they add RUN/GEO AF.

EDIT:

Oh, I see, the time zone converter I used was off. It -is- 10:00 PDT so 10:00 PDT = 2:00 JST.

Good to know... not sure why it said 6:00 PM...?

in GMT+1(europe) area it's 6PM (7PM if DST )

[Shadax]

They do them at 10am pst because thats when the least amount of people play. The game is like 45% JP 45% NA, 10% EU. Probably why they do it at that time.

Actually, according to SE's own census, the servers bottom out around 6am JST, which kinda makes sense considering it's early morning in JP, just after EU prime time and just before NA prime time.

Anyway, as just about everyone has said, someone is getting pissed off no matter when they do maintenance. That's just part and parcel to having global servers. Sucks that it seems to affect EU players disproportionately, but you just need to plan your events more carefully is all.

[Kanjitai]

What drives me nuts is when they do an update and hours after it's done you still can't update because the update server or servers can't handle the volume of people.

[Payadopa]

As an aside, is anyone else not being able to DL the update? I've been trying for the last 3 hours or so..

[cyric]

From the time servers went up until now, no I haven't. A lot of people were saying the same thing in chat rooms. It seems to get stuck alot on downloading the text patch of the update; if it gets to that point.

[Payadopa]

It's weird you see no threads about it popping up in here so I was wondering. lol
It is slightly annoying, though, but to be expected. It's been ten years after all~ ^^'

[cyric]

Chat rooms in playonline lol. But finally it's downloading on my computer. It was my xbox which I started downloading first.