Quote Originally Posted by Zourin View Post
I see SE is continuing to excel at not keeping up with industry standards. Major content 'patches' from CCP are done within an hour. Even Blizzard can push within a six hour window.

SE just wastes everyone's time, then extends downtime because they spent most of it goofing off or not actually having a testing process for deployment.
You can also look at it like this

Would you rather have a 25 hour maint or...

a 6 hour maint and a 5 hour extension, and a 5 hour extension and a 5 hour extension and a 5 hour extension.

Better to be safe than sorry, the latter will infuriate people more than the former.