Consider changing maintenance time?

[Colorful]

You do realize that changing the maintenance time will ruin it for people in other timezones? For JST players it would be an incredibly bad time, and in turn, also for myself (being an Australian). I don't know why they just don't have different times for the maintenance on each datacentre, I guess it would be like back in the day with WoW how people would create alts on other regions and overpopulate those servers while their own was done.

[FMElan]

I don't know why they just don't have different times for the maintenance on each datacentre, I guess it would be like back in the day with WoW how people would create alts on other regions and overpopulate those servers while their own was done.

It's because they want the expansions/patches/hotfixes/bugfixes to be applied at the same time across all of the servers. Otherwise, some servers will have an advantage(Japan servers getting new items/recipes before NA servers, or having easier drops because the hotfix is supposed to increase drop rates, etc. Or other servers will have advanced warning of things that are going to change, allowing them to abuse exploits before they're removed, stock up on items needed to create new items, etc.

[Frowny]

I don't know why they just don't have different times for the maintenance on each datacentre

Kinda confused on this too. Other games do maintenance based on platform to stagger things, so I'm not sure why it can't be done for different data centers.

If anything, it would be good as if they see an issue, they don't need to worry about every server.