Why do people continue to excuse SE's amateur behavior in just about everything? It's pretty much standard for US-based MMORPG to have patch time around midnight in all the MMORPGs I have played. That time is certainly most inconvenient for any US-based company, but they picked that time since North America is the biggest MMORPG market and they want NA players to be happy. For some reason, while pretty much every US based company have no problem getting people doing patch at 1am, it's actually hard for Japanese to do the same time even though the time zone difference would give them an advantage here. And no I've never heard of any other MMORPG maker alternate their patch time to somehow appease the Euros. NA is solidly bigger than Euro in terms of gaming population, and I really doubt people will be happy just because patch only screws them 50% of the time versus 100% of the time.