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.

[Altena]

Eh? It's nearly always around midnight PDT.

The extended maints that come with a patch are sometimes a tad earlier but for the most part you guys get lucky.

It's one night, get over it. Go outside. See some sun/moonlight. You will get over it in a day.

[LunaFaye]

Eh? It's nearly always around midnight PDT.

The extended maints that come with a patch are sometimes a tad earlier but for the most part you guys get lucky.

It's one night, get over it. Go outside. See some sun/moonlight. You will get over it in a day.

Let's see, normally it starts 10 pm PDT, sometimes even 11 pm PDT and goes till 3 am. Unless it finishes earlier, then you can count on something around 1:30 or 2 am PDT. Last patch and this upcoming patch, starts already at 7 pm PDT and goes till 3 am. While I don't mind it, we can't say it's close to midnight. Because 7 pm is clearly not close or semi close to midnight, last time I checked. I can see why people might be angry about that.

[Hestzhyen]

Guess it's NA's turn to be inconvenienced the most for patches. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.