I am drawing you "it is only 10 minutes"-ppl a worst case scenario:

- A european player ends work at 6pm
- comes home at 7pm
- finishes dinner and playtime with the kids at 8pm.
- Logs into the game (not congested world) at 8:15pm.
- As a dps he knows that it is impossible to get into a roulette because of the forced kick that is going to happen at 9pm.
- Servers are back up at 9:10pm, he ends up in a little queue and is back online at 9:20pm. Since he has to get up early in the morning for work, he has to log off at 10pm.
- A dps would have to wait 30+ minutes to get into a dungeon his night is alreay over, he won't make it anywhere before he has to log off.

So instead of "10 minutes only" this kick takes away 2 hours, which makes 100% of his playtime during the week, more than 50% of his total playtime.

Before you do it: Don't you dare to come with "this is a datacenter for the americans only"... There has been no EU datacenter when 1.0 started. There has been no EU datacenter when ARR started. We simply had no choice back then and when they finally added a european datacenter we europeans already had history and friends on the servers where we created our characters.

I am happy for the ppl that are going to benefit from this kick. For the working european community it's a huge slap into the face.

And as we can see in that "reporting issues resulting from the north american data center relocation" thread SE simply stops responding. Leaving the ppl that are affected by this alone. Over a month later and SE still refuses to talk to us. So i'm sorry if we do not expect this simultaneous logout to be a temporary thing.