Soo should we strap in for weekly maintenance at this point or...?

[Hestzhyen]

ITT: people who didn't play through early 2.x

Didn't even need an expansion or a patch to see the servers going down once a week for hours at a time, sometimes more!

It's a good opportunity to catch up on other games, maybe some shows... our usual time works best but I don't see an issue with them spreading the pain now and then. Maintenance windows are tricky when you have a 24x7 global operation.

[Hestzhyen]

Japanese game? So what. Pretty sure the server I play on is still located on the North American continent, where North American people are employed to monitor and maintain these servers, and typically work at normal North American business hours. There is no excuse for maintenance during North American prime time unless there's an emergency game breaking bug.

Do you want to tell SE that they have to coordinate three separate maintenance windows for patching? Will you be there to make all the adjustments to the deploy methods to account for this? If you can do it better without costing them a fortune, I'm sure they'd love to hire you!