Maintenance Times (don't make sense to me)

[Akuha]

No, really I'm curious. Since all their times are given in PDT, I'm assuming SE sets up shop somewhere on the west coast (likely Cali)? If that's the case there's no massive intercontinental time zone difference to wade around, so why do they put maintenance times where they do, rather than in the lowest traffic hours of the day when people are usually at work/school? Yes, I am aware other countries around the world play as well, Japan being one of them. I am also aware that they have split maint times before to accommodate that time difference by performing maint on NA and JP worlds at different times.

[Johnist]

People need to understand that there is both a SE of Japan and SE of North America. They're running one build of the game across two separate data centers.

Sometimes the Japanese development team has to do maintenance, sometimes SENA Data center maintenance and sometimes SEJP has to Data center maintenance.

Quoted for Truth

SE's USA HQ is in California (PDT). However, the servers are far far east in like Greenland or something considering the 'Server Time' vs 'Local Time' (PDT for me).

This maintenance is a Japanese Development Team maintenance.

in order to perform database and network maintenance, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds

I love how when these threads pop up everyone jumps at the chance to flame the hell out of the OP, despite being pissed about the issue themselves.

Um... I didn't flame you, and I answered your question. I'm not pissed off about the issue, just the fact that people as Bobby Singer would call them "idjits" keep bringing them up.

[Ri_ri]

Started 2:00 AM here.
Makes a lot of sense to me.

[DarkRain]

the times are set for every time zone. They ( SE ) gives the time(s) for things in your region . The SE NA home office is on the west cost so the time given is PST. The Europe time is made in there time zone because the EU SE home office is there . Same for Japan . I think what SE thinks is for North America is this . Our Prime time is about 6pm EST 6pm CDT 6pm MNT 6pm PST and the number drop off around 8pm EST 8pm CDT 8pm MNT 8pm PST. Now the maintenance was at 8pm PST witch is 9pm MNT 10pm CDT and 11pm EST . Another reason why most maintenance starts at 11pm PST until 2am PST . Because most players will be sleeping in the NA region at that time . 11pm PST=12MNT=1CDT-2EST and 2am PST=3MNT-4CDT-5EST . Thats my thinking

[AyaneKiwara]

Anyways, its All world maintenance. Lately, the NA datacenter scheduled maintenances have started around 12pm pdt.

[viion]

Maintenance is done when it best suits them, you deal with it. As you knew it was going to happen.

[Akuha]

I love how when these threads pop up everyone jumps at the chance to flame the hell out of the OP, despite being pissed about the issue themselves.

[SanjiroLionheart]

I love how when these threads pop up everyone jumps at the chance to flame the hell out of the OP, despite being pissed about the issue themselves.

Edit: Wow this thing is small, and I don't wanna hear any "That's what she said"s :P

[Lokean]

Honestly, it's a good time. Bad for me, but, at 8 PM PDT, it's not so bad, especially on a weekday. Normaly, people should be getting to bed or winding down ready for some sleep, so it's a good "Natural" time. But, for most others, it's kinda right there in the middle of happy fun time of gaming.

Also, since it's all world, I'm guessing it's through the head department scheduling so, it probably suits them more. Usually how it goes honestly.

[SoulKhan]

This is a very long down time (6 Hours) my god