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

[Felis]

All Worlds Maintenance

All Worlds =/= NA only

in europe it is 5 am - 8 am (middle europe summer time)

[Semmi]

The world doesn't revolve around the west coast, sorry.

[Elim]

Ahh... So I'll have a little under 2 hours of play when I get home. Oh well. I'm already bored of the game.

I do wonder if 8pm will be the normal maintenance time though. That's gunna screw a lot of raid groups.

[NocturniaUzuki]

As far as I know, it's the best all-round time for most of the world. It's just western NA that gets screwed over by it. For me, maintenance always ends up starting around 12:00am or 2:00am and ending in morning before I get up. For Japan of course, if it's the same time, it should be 12 hours off of me, so 12:00pm/2:00pm. Which isn't great, but should finish by prime time.

[PharisHanasaki]

If this fixes the constant 90001 and 90002 I don't care if it's my prime time (west coast).
The game is literally unplayable.

[Claviusnex]

They should do it at noon PDT. That allows (i think) the majority of the player base to avoid the maint. If you work second shift, you can get online before maint, and if you work first shift, you will be at work. if you work third.....well, that sucks. but first and second shift i think, is where the majority of the players work.

What if your retired and no longer work like me?

[Rekujin]

C'mon...

Every. Single. Maintenance. has been at 7pm-11pm NZ time, we are ALWAYS hit with prime time maintenance, the odd chance NA gets hit is not a big deal. The amount of times I've had a rough day at work, gone home, booted up the PC and found out XIV is down for 3-4 hours thus I can't play at all because I need to be in bed by the time it's back up is always disappointing.

[PharisHanasaki]

C'mon...

Every. Single. Maintenance. has been at 7pm-11pm NZ time, we are ALWAYS hit with prime time maintenance, the odd chance NA gets hit is not a big deal. The amount of times I've had a rough day at work, gone home, booted up the PC and found out XIV is down for 3-4 hours thus I can't play at all because I need to be in bed by the time it's back up is always disappointing.

Uh, but NA getting hit is not odd. At least not for the WC. I think it was during patch 3.2 that we got constant emergency maintenance from 7pm or 9pm to 1am. So there were a couple of days a week for a few weeks that I couldn't play at all.

[HyperSMB]

I should say, this is really only Prime Time for half the U.S.

11:00 PM is not prime time on a weekday for EST and at the very tailend for CST.

[dynus]

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

No, I don't.

If people don't get the hotfixes at the same time, it's going to cause problems. Just because there are data centers set in different regions, doesn't automatically mean that people will only play on the data centers in their region. I have a friend who plays on a Japanese server so she can play with her brother, who lives in Tokyo, for example.

For reasons like that, and just globalization in general, things need to be lined up. A game made by a Japanese company is going to do it on their timeframe. It's just how it is. I work thirds so when they do maintenance on my off days I'm always screwed out of my prime time. Trust me, I feel your pain. Especially 'cause I always have Monday nights/Tuesday mornings off, meaning anytime there's a content patch I'm out of luck for playing.

But you got a roll with it.