Consider changing maintenance time?

[Dualblade]

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Police and Medical are not something I would compare work hours on due to how their jobs work honestly. I don't know much about the casino buisness to say anything there, and as for fast food and retail, many of those types don't stay open 24/7 (though they do work later then many other buisnesses.) That said many non-retail/food buisnesses close up before 6 pm here in the US.

[tjw]

Are you seriously trying to compare Police occupation, something required by the citizens for THEIR OWN SAFETY and law regulation, for an entertainment company that is for making profit? If you can't see something wrong with that comparison, I don't even want to explain it.

As for the times. The maintenance is from 2-7pm Tokyo time. That is the perfect working time for the devs. Does it inconvenience some of the playerbase? Yes it does. However, they have every right to do the maintenance during the hours THEY ARE MEANT TO DO IT.

[dragorian]

they have been changeing the time frames used

[Mikedizzy]

This conversation will continue on until the game ends eventually. But my two cents is why can we not "trade off" who gets screwed over on the maintenance times? Why does it always have to be NA PST that get screwed?? How about we alternate it every other time so it is at least "fair". I don't even care about the whole reset thing because I don't wait until the last minute to cap but I just would like all the players to share the down time. I know they made the game and it is Japan and all but this is clearly favoring "their" players since they are never "jacked" on their play time...not really cool.

[Nix]

Same reason police work in the night, as well as myself in the casino business, fast food workers and every single person who's in medical and retail work environments.

Medical signing in!


I'll never bitch about the maint times, even if late night // early morning hours are my usual playtimes.
Want to know why? (Of course you do! )

Because For as long as MMOs are around, there will be maintenance. Someone, somewhere will get shafted regardless of when that maintenance is.

I typically work graveyard, and maintenance does eat into my playtime, but I know that maintenance that happens late at night suits the 9-5 crowd who I'd like to think makes up the majority of the workforce. (I say 9-5, but it's a catch-all term for those who are generally asleep at a humane hour, unlike me... QQ /sadface)
If this maintenance time was to shift to earlier in the day, it's going to jack someone else over. Someone, somewhere will be shafted... We drew the short straw.

Maint times will not change, right now they do suit a lot of people, more specifically the guys doing the maintenance. And I'm fine with that! They have a home life, kids, families, pets etc.

Can you imagine if someone walked into my ER and I refused to treat them because it was past 9pm and I wanted to be home in my slippers, eating nutella from the jar without a spoon?! Aw hell naw. People would pitch a fit. And probably sue me...

tl;dr: Maintenance will screw someone over regardless of when it is. Go get yourself some nutella, it's good.

[Ruri]

Why cant everyone in the Earth just have one timezone!

[Dualblade]

Why cant everyone in the Earth just have one timezone!

It would change from time zones to how moon players are getting screwed over.

[RyuRoots]

I suspect we'll keep getting these threads until the game shuts down because so many people who play the game are just such precious little snowflakes and THEIR time is clearly much more valuable than that of anyone in a different time zone, with a different schedule, or both. There have been stretches where I feel maintenances have been too frequent but we've been fine for a while now. Trust me, one night without the game won't hurt anyone.

[Raist]

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When I was in IT, calls outside of normal operating hours were billed at a premium....sometimes 2x the normal rate or higher. Plus, I got mileage if I had to go on-site.

Just saying... you are comparing the normal business hour schedule model against a 24/7 model or an extended hours schedule.

[FMElan]

I don't know why they just don't have different times for the maintenance on each datacentre, I guess it would be like back in the day with WoW how people would create alts on other regions and overpopulate those servers while their own was done.

It's because they want the expansions/patches/hotfixes/bugfixes to be applied at the same time across all of the servers. Otherwise, some servers will have an advantage(Japan servers getting new items/recipes before NA servers, or having easier drops because the hotfix is supposed to increase drop rates, etc. Or other servers will have advanced warning of things that are going to change, allowing them to abuse exploits before they're removed, stock up on items needed to create new items, etc.