Emergency maintenance for...

[Magis]

Maint is old news now. Why are people still talking about this?

Also the fact maintenance is a fact of MMOs. Is this everyone first MMO or something? Geeze, when WoW had downtime Tuesdays where the game would be offline for the whole day EST, these complainers would have freaked! There wasn't even patches going on, it was just regular server maintenance.

[HaelseMikiro]

Also the fact maintenance is a fact of MMOs. Is this everyone first MMO or something? Geeze, when WoW had downtime Tuesdays where the game would be offline for the whole day EST, these complainers would have freaked! There wasn't even patches going on, it was just regular server maintenance.

when WoW had downtime for an entire day, all subscribers received 1 extra day to their subscriptions too

[Magis]

when WoW had downtime for an entire day, all subscribers received 1 extra day to their subscriptions too

Feb. 5, 2015 9:00 p.m. to Feb. 6, 2015 12:00 a.m. (PST)

3 Hours of maintenance.

WoW was: 5AM-11AM PST

6 hours of maintenance.

What are you talking about "all day"?

[Vrankyl]

Feb. 5, 2015 9:00 p.m. to Feb. 6, 2015 12:00 a.m. (PST)

3 Hours of maintenance.

WoW was: 5AM-11AM PST

6 hours of maintenance.

What are you talking about "all day"?

I think this post hits one the biggest reason why this is such a problem though. 5AM-11AM PST on a Tuesday the majority of NA is at work or school, vs the 9PM-12AM any day which is when us working adults get our play time in. Granted this is actually a NA issue since I know these times are actually based off of Japan times so they can do maintenance on all servers at once, it just sucks its always during my prime play time is all. Thankfully I have Dragon Age to occupy my time when this is down.

[Magis]

I think this post hits one the biggest reason why this is such a problem though. 5AM-11AM PST on a Tuesday the majority of NA is at work or school, vs the 9PM-12AM any day which is when us working adults get our play time in. Granted this is actually a NA issue since I know these times are actually based off of Japan times so they can do maintenance on all servers at once, it just sucks its always during my prime play time is all. Thankfully I have Dragon Age to occupy my time when this is down.

100% this is the problem, but complaining to SE about mandatory maintance which is outlined everywhere on the site that it happens is kinda pointless. Shits gonna go down, even if they aren't bug fixing something visible to you, they are still replacing hardware, running tests on the HDDs, fixing stuff server side that they don't want players to know about, etc.

Complaining cause Japan (or WoW's case West Coast US) are in a different time zone than you is pointless. MMO players knew this 5 years ago so why the hell are there now posts complaining about it?