How about some

[Vonleo]

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.

You have a fair point but that could also be said for everyone in each time zone correct? i mean we basically get screwed hardcore.

[Ryuko]

If you play a game that originates in Japan, you've gotta deal with the hours they choose and the location of their servers. It makes the most sense for their workers to update the servers at this time. This also means that by the time the people in JP are up and active, the patch is ready to go for them. This is the way it's always been for all SE's MMO's.

Despite this, I definitely feel your pain. I'm in the EST and every time there is a maintenance, I am more or less prevented from playing for that night... but, I repeat...


If you play a game that originates in Japan, you've gotta deal with the hours they choose.

[Vonleo]

If you play a game that originates in Japan, you've gotta deal with the hours they choose and the location of their servers. It makes the most sense for their workers to update the servers at this time. This also means that by the time the people in JP are up and active, the patch is ready to go for them. This is the way it's always been for all SE's MMO's.

Despite this, I definitely feel your pain. I'm in the EST and every time there is a maintenance, I am more or less prevented from playing for that night... but, I repeat...


If you play a game that originates in Japan, you've gotta deal with the hours they choose.

True but if they are TRYING to make this game a international game they should try to make the maint hours appeal to world wide players not just japanese players is all im saying.

[Delsus]

Where in my posts did i say america was the whole world? stop trying to stick words into my mouth please.

I mean the maint time is brutal for us north americans you cannot freaking deny that 5pm to 10pm is pure peak time for us.

From your post.

thats the whole freaking day for most ppl that have normal hour jobs so when maint is done ppl are left with what? 1 or 2 hours of play time?

Personnaly I don't get off work at 5pm EST (or EDT doesnt matter) because that 10pm for me so MOST people dont get off work then MOST Americans do generalising makes it look like you think America is the whole world MOST people is not MOST Americans.

STO (NA based game) has maintanance during MY prime time so should I rage at them because I can't play because of maintanance, they do no rotations.

[Answa]

Not everyone in the US is EST, either. I live in MST and I'm fine with 3-8 PM maintenance.

[indira]

its the middle of the night in japan when they update you know

[Shinun]

World isnt fair get used to it. This isn't the only MMO that has maint times that screw over a certain portion of the world.

[Enfarious]

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

[Kiroh]

From your post.



Personnaly I don't get off work at 5pm EST (or EDT doesnt matter) because that 10pm for me so MOST people dont get off work then MOST Americans do generalising makes it look like you think America is the whole world MOST people is not MOST Americans.

STO (NA based game) has maintanance during MY prime time so should I rage at them because I can't play because of maintanance, they do no rotations.

To be fair, Von never said anything about American prime time, he said NA prime time. Believe it or not, America is not the only country on the North American continent...

[Vonleo]

From your post.



Personnaly I don't get off work at 5pm EST (or EDT doesnt matter) because that 10pm for me so MOST people dont get off work then MOST Americans do generalising makes it look like you think America is the whole world MOST people is not MOST Americans.

STO (NA based game) has maintanance during MY prime time so should I rage at them because I can't play because of maintanance, they do no rotations.

Dude your stretching it......if i was going to say all of america i would have said it but i didn't so please don't try and turn this into a "oh hes an american he just thinks of himself" situation and just FYI im canadian. Even if we are in the same time zones or whatever or if you have some sort of agenda against americans or something.