Quote Originally Posted by Vonleo View Post
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.
If this was a game where there were different servers for different time zones (for instance, JP servers, NA servers, EU servers), I could see your point. It would be a nice convenience if they did 'rolling restarts' to implement the patch... but, that's not the case here. Every single server is international, and although it sucks during patch day, we'll soon forget about this when we are enjoying all of the new content.

As someone else mentioned, when the patch is finally over... it is early midday for the Japanese. Many of them are still at work or school when the patch is ready to play. Most of the European players are asleep when the patch is 'ready to go'. In an interesting turn of events, the NA are probably the most likely to play the patch FIRST (barring the hardcore fans that don't work, or will skip work to play... or just won't sleep that night...)

We will only have a few hours to play before we go to bed (if we choose to go to bed) and then the rest of the world is a 'day' ahead of us... but this is the way it works. NA are technically at the 'end' of the day (if you look at the international dateline). It's just where we live.