Can we PLEASE get maintenance at different times of the day?

[Gaddes]

Square, look... I fully understand that MMOs often need maintenance, whether it's scheduled or an emergency... but could we PLEASE at least mix it up a bit and have maintenance sometimes at times OTHER than 10-11 pm to 1-2 am pacific??

I work late hours and look forward to playing when I get home, to relax. But we're getting maintenance practically every 2-3 days and that basically means anyone like myself with later evening hours free will lose out on playing the game for that day. It's really frustrating.

[Yellow]

Gurl. The maintenance for some players is during 4pm - 8pm ;3; I think due to the nature of the game being so global, they've just picked a time and stuck with it.

I imagine it's fine for JP players since most of them would likely be working or busy between the hours of 3pm and 7pm.

[Rankojp]

Agreed, it is overly frustrating to lose so may days to maintenance because it takes place roughly the same time always.

[InfiniteSilence]

While this also effects me the same way(I feel your pain), but you must understand these developers who are implementing the patches are based in Japan. While it is late for us. It is mid-day for them and they're at work. Doesn't make sense to suddenly on patch day have them come in at say midnight(Their time) to patch the game.

[Causality]

One person's sleeptime is another person's prime time. You're 2am in California is our 5am on the east coast. Right now The maintenance or us eastern time is 1am-2am Until 4am-5am. So someone who wakes up early to play is now out of luck.

No matter what they do someone is going to be inconvenienced. Its just the nature of things. I am glad they are making sure to fix things quickly when other Large MMOS Pay to play or Free to Play wait over a month sometimes two before they put in their first hot fix.

[LionKing]

1/ Most people here are not night owl worker, you just happens to get the short stick OP.

2/ For you guys it is late at night. For us Aus/NZ, it is 6pm/8pm to 10pm/12 pm which is the playing prime time for us. And we are fine with that.

Sorry but MMORPG games are not cater for any special one. You either deal with it or don't. If you can't MMORPG is not for you then.

[Gaddes]

While this also effects me the same way(I feel your pain), but you must understand these developers who are implementing the patches are based in Japan. While it is late for us. It is mid-day for them and they're at work. Doesn't make sense to suddenly on patch day have them come in at say midnight(Their time) to patch the game.

It's 3 pm in Japan now though. Even if it was something like shifting the maintenance 3 hours earlier or later, that would at least be something... and would still fall within a workday's hours over there.

[Prosek]

/sign

My primary play times are M W Th Fr 10pm to 2am. Since 3.0, I've had 1/4 to 1/2 of my available play-time each week robbed by maintenances. For these non-emergency maintenances, please consider staggering NA / Asia server maintenance so that maintenance on NA servers can happen IN THE DAY TIME like Blizzard does it.


-- Angry Customer

[Gaddes]

1/ Most people here are not night owl worker, you just happens to get the short stick OP.

2/ For you guys it is late at night. For us Aus/NZ, it is 6pm/8pm to 10pm/12 pm which is the playing prime time for us. And we are fine with that.

Sorry but MMORPG games are not cater for any special one. You either deal with it or don't. If you can't MMORPG is not for you then.

You're speaking for every Aussie player out there? Interesting, a self-appointed spokesperson. As for catering, I'm pretty sure they're catering to japanese players, considering their chosen block of time.
And as for your rude "deal with it" comment, I indeed do have to deal with it. It's not like I'm threatening to unsub or whatever people usually do, I'm just trying to see if they're willing to be more flexible with inevitable maintenance times.

[Dualblade]

And then if they moved it to some other time, even just an hour earlier, SOMEONE ELSE would now be wanting it to change because THEIR schedule is now getting interrupted. Its always going to happen, and while it is unfortunate that your playtime is in that zone, its something that most likely won't be changing anytime soon. As well, maints/hotfixes will start to go down a good bit a little after Savage Alex is put out, up until September if we are going by the usual 3 month patch cycle.