Maintenance During Prime Time?

[Aerilon]

Whats with maintenance being done during prime play time now? We used to get server down times late at night, now the servers go down right when people get off work and eat dinner!? Whats the deal? Pretty lame if you ask me.

[Niraye]

its a patch maintenance so its going to be earlier so they can fix bugs and that, all patch maintenance happen earlier, it happens. Someone somewhere will have an issue with it no matter what they switch the times to. At least its not every Tuesday night anymore.

[Kosmos992k]

They try to change up the time a little to be fair to the timezones most served by a data center as well. So it drifts around. For me they are often after midnight, sometimes starting as late as 3am, and sometimes they start as early as 9pm my time. I don't mid, at least it's not always in the middle of my play time.

[Jybril]

We have learned from the last 4 years of mains, or any maints in any MMO's...
Maint times are always gonna be at someones inconvenience.
Someone, somewhere.

[Felis]

2:00 am to 10:00 am (GMT) is not prime time, at least not in europe

[Nhisso]

Maint is almost always after midnight my time.
I work evenings so it is when i get off work. But i dont piss and moan about it.

[Damun]

They did this back during ARR, hitting the US hard during our prime times. Why have we gone back to doing that again? This would be the 4th time canceling a raid night for me and my group.

[Ariyn]

They did this back during ARR, hitting the US hard during our prime times. Why have we gone back to doing that again? This would be the 4th time canceling a raid night for me and my group.

You'd think that since we all know this happens pretty regularly, people would just not schedule a raid night on a Monday. Logic, go figure /shrug

[Presbytier]

They did this back during ARR, hitting the US hard during our prime times. Why have we gone back to doing that again? This would be the 4th time canceling a raid night for me and my group.

First off they give enough of a warning to change ones plans. Secondly why must they specifically cater to your time schedule? When it is convenient for you it is massively inconvenient to someone else. just get used to occasionally being inconvenienced.

[Lambdafish]

They did this back during ARR, hitting the US hard during our prime times. Why have we gone back to doing that again? This would be the 4th time canceling a raid night for me and my group.

Because this is a Japanese game, and the devs are actively working on it during maintenance. I think that the dev team doesn't want to be working at 3am, so the US loses out so that they can work during normal work hours.