Quote Originally Posted by Ronduwil View Post
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.