Suggestion : Rotationary time for maintenance?

[0blivion]

Respectfully, no. People working a 9-5 should not have to do shift work because you're inconvenienced, OP. Next.

e/: And before you whine, I am not USian.

[AlliciaCapulet]

Why would a company accommodate to your convenience ? Deal with it, just like every one.

It's not just my convenience, it's the fact that they do maintenances way too often, as other threads of this forums points out. I've been dealing with it for 13 years, and I've decided to maybe suggest in the forums where we can do suggestion to the devs, so that's what I'm doing it.

Respectfully, no. People working a 9-5 should not have to do shift work because you're inconvenienced, OP. Next.

e/: And before you whine, I am not USian.

Respectfully, I don't care from where you come. And yes, normal people works 7-8 hours a shift. So on a 4 hours maintenance, it change absolutely nothing if you begin it 3-4 hours earlier, and they'll still be on their work schedule. Be sure that the patch have been tested and is ready 24 to 48 hours before they implement it. And if they'd do 9-17 in Japan, that even mean that they could start way earlier than 4 hours earlier of the current time, because they do the maintenance from 15:00 to 19:00 in Japan. This is why I make the suggestion, because it's possible to shift a 4 hours maintenance on a normal person schedule without changing his hours or anything.

From a corporate point of view, this would change almost nothing and add no extra costs, while this simple solution might reduce the amount of complains about maintenance since the people affected won't be the same everytime. Just do a quick research on the forum and you'll see that many threads exists about it, especially when they keep doing fixes to a patch every week.