Quote Originally Posted by Kallaks View Post
A person's job is determined by its clientele's needs. You are a bartender because your clientele wants a drink after work. You don't open a bar 9-5 because that is what is convenient for you as a business owner, you open 5-2 because that is when you have paying customers. SE is doing what they do you keep their consumers. A business listening to their consumer's requests is NEVER a charity. It can make or break a business or a production. This can be adapted into any aspect of business whether you are a small business or corporation. The difference is, a corporation is big enough to withstand a loss in one area, to be gain in another.
the comparison you are using DOES NOT WORK

mmo company runs the game 24/7, and a bar has limited hours per day regardless

downtime only happens usualy at a patch, and if you are really so bent out of shape over a few horus every few months the game is down for these type of things, you yourself need to re-evaluate your priorities and not be so bent on making a company bend to your will to make it so you dont lose those few hours when a patch hits.



also using your same analogy, if they can only work limited hours anyway they go with their biggest populatioin, ie japanese players. so in the end, it is better for business for them to do it at the hours they do it, and thus your example still doesnt work because losing 1 customer to keep several others is just how it works.