Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[Fyrebrand]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal.

OMG, GW2 is so awesome for this. I can barely remember any times the game was ever down.

GW2's problem is they push game break bug fixes to the next update thats planned, even if they know the problem and have the fix ready. Or they did at least when I played.

There was an issue with the Ice Dragon world event that completely broke it. They had the fix in like 3 days. Didn't get deployed until a month later.

Really? I dunno, maybe, but at the same time they would push out plenty of on-the-fly hotfixes and patches in between major updates. And the game wouldn't even have to go down for maintenance. I remember many times when you'd get a message that a new update patch was available, and you could keep playing at your convenience for up to an hour, as long as you didn't leave the map you were on. So I would finish up what I was doing, download the patch, and back into the game I go in a matter of minutes.

[Kolsykol]

This might come as a shock to some people.

But there exist other countries other than the US and the entire world doesn't have to bend over backwards to please and correct themselves by the US.
Tired of this crap and that attitude.

Thanks god that the cinematic i was looking ended without being interrupted, otherwise I would have been really disappointed. I just hope there wasnt another after that one....

Anyone know if there is another cinematic in "The Unbroken Thread" after watching the cinematic after talking to the "Aspiring Amaro Trainer."? I got disconnected after that.

I suspect that it's the same as if you join a dungeon or whatever during a cutscene, the quest is basically just cancelled and you can do/ accept it again and the cutscene will play.

As I recall, we WOW OCE players asked why the maintenance was during OUR primetime?

What were we told?

"Its an American game. For Americans"

The rest of the world often gets left out of events and competitions that game companies have too ( reminder that things are rather centralized in the US, a game studio existing in the US doesn't make the employees all Americans ).
The attitude is very much '' it's for Americans and everyone else is an afterthought '' with most American media.
So it becomes pretty frustrating when the same people who have basically everything catered to them directly already get mad when something/ someone dares not to cater to them and make them prio number 1 for once.

[Darthgummibear]

As someone in the U.S. who basically lost a day of play because I got home from work an hour before it started, get over it. This is the first time I've seen downtime since I started playing last month. It's only what...9 hours? 9 hours out of almost a month? For a game with a substantial global audience? Get over it. This isn't WoW, it's not made by an American company. Other countries exist. You'll live.

[Penthea]

OP needs to zoom out on their map.

[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.

[LalaRu]

It is very probable when the hours of maintenance must be chosen, SE looks at logs and uses the hours that makes the least inconvenience for overall population of all servers in the whole planet.

[TTiscancer]

It is very probable when the hours of maintenance must be chosen, SE looks at logs and uses the hours that makes the least inconvenience for overall population of all servers in the whole planet.

WRONG.

They choose the maintenance time based their normal work hours. You have to have engineers and technicians on stand-by in case something goes wrong to minimize the effects of potential problems.

[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.

[InkB]

WRONG.

They choose the maintenance time based their normal work hours. You have to have engineers and technicians on stand-by in case something goes wrong to minimize the effects of potential problems.

What I'm wondering why people keep saying "Its japanese game" as defense - the servers are physically in NA, with NA employees working on them. Same with EU. The servers are in EU, with EU employees.

Do people think that Japanese workers will take a flight to NA to work on servers every 6+ months when we might have maintanance (which isnt often mind you)?! I mean if they literally do that, thats..intresting choice.

At least in EU we got the better deal. From 2 am to 11 am. Which makes way more sense anyway.

Edit: one thing in defense tho; they want to make the things at same time rather than have some players be able to play the patch earlier (this maint isnt patch tho, just in general idea). Or suddenly make surge of chars to JP DC to "play even little bit"

[TTiscancer]

What I'm wondering why people keep saying "Its japanese game" as defense - the servers are physically in NA, with NA employees working on them. Same with EU. The servers are in EU, with EU employees.

Do people think that Japanese workers will take a flight to NA to work on servers every 6+ months when we might have maintanance (which isnt often mind you)?! I mean if they literally do that, thats..intresting choice.

At least in EU we got the better deal. From 2 am to 11 am. Which makes way more sense anyway.

And who do you think solves issues with the code if an emergency patch is needed? The server technicians? No, it's the developers IN JAPAN.