Why is the maintenance for NA servers in prime time NA?

As the title states, I'm curious about what motivations they might have for consistantly scheduling downtimes the NA servers in prime time for those time zones?

JP master timezone

Simple. They are in japan. It is 4:43am there right now. They do maintance during their business hours.

I find that 90% of maintenance(full day ones aside) are late at night for NA(usually starting anywhere from 10pm PDT to 12am PDT). By that time, a lot of players have already logged off(or just AFKed) and gone to sleep. Unless you work the mid-afternoon to late night shift, then it really isn't prime time, as there is a large population of players that do the 9-5 type grind for work.

Thanks for the responses.

To the contrary, Avatre, this maintence isn't late night or afternoon. If you work 9-5 then you get 3 hours to play tonight assuming you have no commute and skip dinner.

Also why should JP timezones matter? Aren't the NA servers physically located in NA?

Coordination. That way everyone gets to the content at the same time.

I don't understand the sudden need to move it up into NA West Coast Primetime either really and it seems like it always cuts you guys on the left coast short of playing in the evenings/night which doesn't seem right at all. You'd think it would been moved to a later time near the end of their day if they were going to change it but again, they must have their reasons. Hopefully they scheduled 3 hours but it completes much earlier than that for folks.

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Originally Posted by Siegurd

Thanks for the responses.

To the contrary, Avatre, this maintence isn't late night or afternoon. If you work 9-5 then you get 3 hours to play tonight assuming you have no commute and skip dinner.

Also why should JP timezones matter? Aren't the NA servers physically located in NA?

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Even with eating dinner, and my hour long commute(I leave work at 3:30pm PDT and get home 4:30pm PDT), I will still have a few hours to do some stuff.

Yes, it's an inconvenience that they are doing it earlier than normal, but with things like this, it's usually decided based on what is being adjusted, and how many people they feel they will need to ensure nothing else gets messed up along the way.

Other MMOs I used to play did the maintenance Wednesday mornings as soon as they had people arrive at the office(and it was on the PVP day - pretty sure at least 99% of people know of Ragnarok Online), or had no schedule at all and it was a "when we feel something needs to be tweaked/reset".

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Originally Posted by dynus

Coordination. That way everyone gets to the content at the same time.

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That's going a bit overboard for a hotfix, don't you think?

To be fair, the maintenance times usually seem to happen at around 11:00 p.m. PST or so...

I mean, it sucks that this one is particularly early, but I guess it's just one day.

But yeah...8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. + one hour for the gym + another hour for making / eating dinner = one hour to maybe get an expert roulette in...boo.