Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[Krotoan]

First message on the board and complains already

It is very rare for most people to seek out the forum JUST to be positive. A LOT of people come here initially because they are coming here with a problem or to see if OTHERS are having the same problem.

While there is very little we can do about the maint hours.. lets not bag on people for coming to forums to do what people have been coming to game forums forever to do: Voice displeasure.

[Breakbeat]

I have a very weird IRL schedule. Most often, I can play somewhere between the hours of 10pm and 6am, Pacific time.

So, this maintenance does wipe out an entire day of gameplay for me. But I am flexible, I am not the center of the universe, and I understand that sometimes online games need maintenance. So, I'll play a few extra rounds of Homescapes and Rise of Cultures. I'll catch up on Celebrity Masterchef UK. I'll read a bit more of 'Project Hail Mary'. I'll go outside, listen to music, whatever.

My life is tres boring, if I do say so myself, but it's not so bad that I can't occupy myself for nine hours if my primary pastime goes away temporarily.

[Jin-]

FFXIV might be the only game I know where EU players don't get S** on with the maintenance times

[Juun]

I have to sleep at that time cause I have a very early shift. So Im good. Can def play once I get home from work too!

[Sotaris]

They always been that way.

It's a JP game and maint usually occurs over there so just deal with it. It's not like these long maint occurs that often.

Sounds like you might be in the business of things that aren't global. It's hard to find a time to take things down that won't affect all clients when people are always on.

This. We deploy updates to our systems at my work too but we only have to consider CET and EET timezones (+1 hour difference) but here you have to consider NA, EU and JP timezone. It's impossible.

[Illmaeran]

I don't know about you, but I'm going to paint some Warhammer models tonight! I'm sure my wife will appreciate me going to be earlier than normal as well.

[SnowVix]

I don't know about you, but I'm going to paint some Warhammer models tonight! I'm sure my wife will appreciate me going to be earlier than normal as well.

I'm thinking Civ: Beyond Earth myself

Edit: and as I say that, it decides it doesn't want to start up.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Whenever I see people complain about this, I have to wonder - do you guys have nothing else to do with your time? No chores to do, no shows to watch, no other games to play?

Gods know I have a backlog of games. If maint starts early I just fire something up I've been chipping away at, play for a bit, then sleep. Wake up next morning and maint is over! Very easy and low-stress.

Not being able to play for a few hours won't kill anyone.

[Jeeqbit]

Normally maintenance happens 12 AM - 4 AM CST and ends early which is pretty standard for a lot of games because most regions sleep then. If it's different it's because of something like infrastructure maintenance.

[Stormfur]

If you're inconvenienced by a little infrastructure maintenance now, you'll be majorly inconvenienced by server crashes come November.