Last time maintence effected me was when the patch came out and it was down for an entire day. Other than that, the maintences are at like 2am or so which really doesn't bother me.

Now if you're playing on a JP server then yea, you're going to get hit in the middle of the day generally. NA maintence happens when it'll effect the least people, which is why it's in the middle of the night. JP does the same, which is why it's during the day here, since it's their night.

Unless you're talking about server crashes and needing to be repaired, but that's a whole different thing.

JP maintence was jan 2nd, NA was jan 3rd (today at like 2am PST), Dec 26th which MAY or MAY NOT have kicked people (aka worlds not taken down), Dec 24th (started at 11pm PST), Dec 17th (all day for patch), 13th reg maintence (1am PST - 3am PST), and then before that it was pretty common but still in the early hours of the morning (1am-3am).

I'd rather take often 1am's than once a week for 6-8 hours.