Let's Talk BS about this Maint for 4hours.....

[Zezlar]

Bla bla bla.
If you're a worker, you'd happily work at 4:00 AM for a maintance so a pinco on the other side of the globe can play 4 more hours ? I think not, nor you too. So please stop thinking they're robbing, they're doing a job.
A world-wide job.

Where did I once say they were robbing me? All I stated was that I didn't believe them. Before you start putting words in my mouth, maybe take a second to read first.

[lynex]

Thursday's are my day off and maintenance always falls on this day, while I mind; its life. I don't expect people to stop playing when I don't feel like getting on. They have maintenance when its convenient for them. If it brings 2.0 faster or smoother I'm all for it. Stop being selfish the world does not revolve around you. The patches are for helping make the game better and they are responding to people's complaints so be grateful they are listening instead of ignoring the problems. If they wanted they could just ignore all problems and say it will all be better when 2.0 comes out. No lag then just hang tight. They are trying to fix problems for us too.

[Holland]

They could easily do updates per region, too. Bring down the US servers before or after primetime (or in the AM), then do the EU servers, then do the JP servers. From what I've noticed, most other games with international servers do it like that. Looking at the time differences, the only difficulty would be the EU servers, I suppose, but then I've seen them taken down with US servers as well.

I don't understand how would you be able to bring down global servers by region.

[Laraul]

If you are this upset over not playing a silly game for four hours, either move to another timezone or try to accept that the world does not revolve around you.

North America is 5 time zones wide, plus Hawaii. And the Maintenance should end at 9PM EDT which is a little before usage peaks. So stop fretting and watch TV or see a Movie or something.

[Firon]

Because right now, it's 7am in Tokyo. STUPID-MAD HOURS, BRO!

They could easily do updates per region, too. Bring down the US servers before or after primetime (or in the AM), then do the EU servers, then do the JP servers. From what I've noticed, most other games with international servers do it like that. Looking at the time differences, the only difficulty would be the EU servers, I suppose, but then I've seen them taken down with US servers as well.

I'm going to assume there's -some- staff who are there overnight to at least call the people who bring down/up servers in case of an emergency or moderate to some extent. It's not too out of line, considering the game/servers and all the other hardware runs 24/7.

Right and that's normal work hours you dumb ass, what time do you propose they do their work so everyone is happy, oh you know what? There is no time. Simple fact is maint's gonna happen and its gonna stop you from playing for a few hours get over it. also you can't do updates by region when its global game your pretty smart there bro!

[Firon]

I don't understand how would you be able to bring down global servers by region.

To answer your question, just think what forums you are on...

[V3rdict]

Oh wait, nevermind...I just realized there's only one dedicated "international" server...for EU.

Well, still. I like the previously mentioned alternating downtime pattern.

They could prolly delay the EU server, but the other ones basically alternate between two 12 hour differences. They do it 6PM their time one day, then 6PM ours on another. Better yet, 12 o'clock seems to work better, if you base it on Pacific time.

I guess EU still gets screwed, lol.

[morpheus]

Greetings,

Unfortunately, there are always going to be times when maintenance will impact some regions more than others when running on a global scale. Maintenance is never targeted to disrupt the play of one region over another, so please don't think that it is.

Right...cause maintenance isn't almost always at the exact same time lol. Funny how we never see maintenance during jp prime time..ever.

[Holland]

To answer your question, just think what forums you are on...

Haha, don't worry about it, just wondering if he had some theory to back that up. But hey, you never know, I certainly don't, maybe there is a way.

For the rest of complainers, you are certainly entitled to voice your opinion but please at least try to bring a compelling argument to the table. After experiencing the level of service we've received form Yoshi and crew this past year, you would think twice about saying "They do this just to piss customers". EU players are the minority (They have their own recommended server) so the impact to all customers during maintenance is felt less if done in their prime time.

[Firon]

Oh wait, nevermind...I just realized there's only one dedicated "international" server...for EU.

Well, still. I like the previously mentioned alternating downtime pattern.

They could prolly delay the EU server, but the other ones basically alternate between two 12 hour differences. They do it 6PM their time one day, then 6PM ours on another.

There is no EU only server just a recommended one... There are JP,EU, NA players on that server as well...