Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[RitsukoSonoda]

If it's something that needs to be done in every region then it will be done for every region at the same time. That way there isn't situations of various areas being behind. My question on this is why so many people in NA seem to think the entire world needs to revolve around their schedule.

[inb4u]

My question on this is why so many people in NA seem to think the entire world needs to revolve around their schedule.

not everyone from the US thinks this way.
don't rope the entire US populous into that mindset.
<3

the OP is prob new or a troll either way maybe with all the good post about the situation, they might understand game is not in the US and runs on another time frame.

[Kolsykol]

not everyone from the US thinks this way.
don't rope the entire US populous into that mindset.
<3

the OP is prob new or a troll either way maybe with all the good post about the situation, they might understand game is not in the US and runs on another time frame.

The person you're responding to said '' so many '' tho, not all.

[Ronduwil]

If it's something that needs to be done in every region then it will be done for every region at the same time. That way there isn't situations of various areas being behind. My question on this is why so many people in NA seem to think the entire world needs to revolve around their schedule.

It's not necessarily specific to NA. There are different datacenters, so the question is really, "Why can't each datacenter have its own maintenance schedule that is convenient for that datacenter?" Maybe there's a perfectly valid reason for all the datacenters to have to undergo maintenance at one time, but a well-designed system would have allowed for staggered maintenance schedules so that no datacenter would be stuck in maintenance mode in the middle of its most active period.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

It's not necessarily specific to NA. There are different datacenters, so the question is really, "Why can't each datacenter have its own maintenance schedule that is convenient for that datacenter?" Maybe there's a perfectly valid reason for all the datacenters to have to undergo maintenance at one time, but a well-designed system would have allowed for staggered maintenance schedules so that no datacenter would be stuck in maintenance mode in the middle of its most active period.

Or better yet, why not just suck it up and find something else to do with your time for a few hours or a Day, and let the game do its Maintenance so everyone across the board in all datacenters all at the same time can enjoy the benefits of the update.
Apologies if that comes off as rude or mean, but I stand the idea that everyone should suffer the downtime, and so everyone should enjoy the patches at the same time. I find it a fair system. Everybody picks up trash around the neighborhood, everyone gets to go to the Pizza Party afterwards.

[Sotaris]

There are different datacenters, so the question is really, "Why can't each datacenter have its own maintenance schedule that is convenient for that datacenter?"

Basically - manpower and cost efficiently.

[Ranaku]

It's not necessarily specific to NA. There are different datacenters, so the question is really, "Why can't each datacenter have its own maintenance schedule that is convenient for that datacenter?" Maybe there's a perfectly valid reason for all the datacenters to have to undergo maintenance at one time, but a well-designed system would have allowed for staggered maintenance schedules so that no datacenter would be stuck in maintenance mode in the middle of its most active period.

Holy shoot hydaelyn send your servants some brain, please.

THE DEVELOPERS ARE JAPANESE. THEY HAVE TO BE AWAKE WHILE MAINTENANCE. THEY WORK, AT JAPANESE DAYTIME. WHICH...IS...THE...MAINTENANCE...SCHEDULE. SO THEY CAN REACT TO STUFF THAT MIGHT GO WRONG. SO...YOU...DONT...HAVE...TO...DEAL...WITH...A...GIANT...MESS...WHEN...IT...COMES...TO...BUGS.

It is not that hard to understand, really you guys make me cry. They do it when they are awake so if something goes wrong you don't have to wait like 12 hours until the developers wake up. I know deep down in your basement cave you might already transcendet beyond having the need for a good rest but i can tell you many of us have to sleep everyday.

Edit: This isn't WoW where they let the players basically betatest the game ten months in advance so you can catch all the bugs etc. for them as a unpaid slave.