Quote Originally Posted by ChickNorris View Post
Or you could just....you know...not play for an evening... /ducks

Additionally, the patch finishes at 11am JST. When most people are at work. I have several friends who will not be doing the patch download til they get home. Let alone experience the content as soon as it is available....you know....like the NAs.

And you don't even mention the EUs where it will be like 3-5am (depending on location) when the patch will be finished. Again, they would have to wait to download patch and wake up early or stay up all night to play new content.

Suddenly, having to do something else aside from play the game for a couple hours one night doesn't seem too much to ask.
There's actually some significant benefits to being JST for most of these updates. Most notably the first few hours where the bugs/possible crashes and quick fixes will all happen during that few hours when NA players are playing. So by the time JST players get on there's been 6 hours of hotfixes in place so they get a smoothly running game.

Don't yell at me yet, check the past update and hotfix notes, they're almost always within 2~4 hours of a major update for an all worlds emergency maint. that lasts another 2 hrs