Quote Originally Posted by Kiara1 View Post
Why can't they just have different times for different servers? EU servers would probably have their maintenance during the morning (when I got most time to play) so then I could choose to play on an NA server for better maintenance times.
But instead, they chose to have them the 3 hours of free time I have before work everytime.

To me it doesn't matter if it affects more people. Say they have 6 maintenances a month, some people don't get affected by that at all, and for some people that means they just lost 6 days of playing from their subscription.
if they rotated the times maybe everyone would be hit by the maintenance twice during those 6 maintenances

It's not about making "most of the people happy" its about making all of the customers happy. I'm seriously considering quitting cause of how SE handles things like this (and lots of other stuff too, SE as a company to me is a joke compared to a lot of other companies imo)
They do have different times for each of the datacenters. Japan's servers are not taken down for maintenance at the same time that the Americas/Europe's servers are. They are usually done a day-ish in advance (when it's scheduled maintenance.)

As you've been told before, interrupting service from 12-3 AM PST means that basically the whole of the east coast is sleeping and a few people are still playing past prime time in the west. It's probably the time with the least subscribers on. They didn't just Russian roulette the window. If you have the need to play those 12 or so extra hours that you are potentially missing on a monthly basis then I'd suggest you change your schedule because I don't see theirs shifting anytime soon.