Excessive Maintenance

[Avenger]

Patch 2.51 was a major content patch, they usually start maint for major content patches earlier in the evening like 9PM PST, but this only happens once every 3 months...all other maints are usually 11PM PST or later. So...what you are saying is you'd rather them not have new content because of the maint required :/

1. They have been scheduled starting at 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2... but as you note it's often around 11, which is bad for a lot of people in pacific-ish time zones who like to play at the end of the day. In my own experience, our server seems pretty busy at the above times.

2. No, it's a mistake to conflate timing with the existence of maintenance - they're not the same thing. I am trying to explain why OP has a legitimate point, which is simply that the same people will tend to get hit by maintenance repeatedly since it's scheduled at similar times. This seems unfortunate and unfair, which leads us to...

Yeah they could rotate timezones but they still gonna end up in some groups prime time, maint really does not happen that often. The game is up like 95% of the time. If you are somehow landing in that 5% every single time you login...I don't think anything can be done about that.

3. Rotating could spread the pain over multiple time zones. Most people play at similar times during the day, so this reduces the likelihood of inconveniencing the same players over and over. I think we are actually agreeing that it's certainly annoying when maintenance repeatedly hits your preferred game time, and that rotating could possibly mitigate the problem.