The only game to patch during prime time

[Aver]

I see that humility is alive and well.

[HamHam]

As a former XI player. I'm use to it and I have no problem with SE doing maintainance during those hours. If it makes the game better, then go for it.

[Elkwood]

As an IT professional you never win. In a situation like this you never win, especially when it requires coordination across multiple regions with the possibility that something is going to go wrong with the deployment. Granted I assume SE has the patch ready to go, it has been tested, the hardware is in place already setup and they just need to run the script to change the IPS in the routing tables and the game to bring the new hardware online, but something always goes wrong.

This is why you perform maint in this case when 99% of the staff to support it is in the office. We are not talking bringing one simple server online here. We are most likely talking the addition of 50+ servers across both regions in a 10 hour period. This is no small feat to coordinate in a 10 hour period. You people that sit there and complain like you have a clue really need to STFU and just go away tonight.

Now if they were just patching the game and the server structure was correct yes I could see regional patching. Na patched during JP prime time and such, but not when you are adding 50+ servers to each region.

[Zcion]

so what you're basically asking for is two different clients (like all the games do that have different maintenances)... which in turn usually also means TWO SUBSCRIPTIONS. the maintenance is not so much a server maintenance as it is also a maintenance to work on the entire game client, including uploading a patch. you really want a patch to be implemented during different times?

*more misguided assumptions*
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What ? Where in my post do you get all these ? I said I DO NOT AGREE with OP. I couldn't care less what time they do their maintenance. I just corrected that person for their ignorant argument of "They dont want to work through the night." In fact most of they sys admins and cage masters do work through the night for maintenance.

All the assumptions you are making about my post make you look a bit ridiculous to be quite honest.

[Alosmin]

Another one that thinks the United States is the center of the world. Almost pathetic....

[Bashkarthegreat]

dude 8pm is not prime time, in america like 4-9 is primetime, 8 it definately winds down for people who have lives and jobs and are responsible and not leeching the interwebz from their parents and living in there basement. 8-6 is amazing, at least its not WoW's stupid 5am-2pm crap, when you get a day off work, tuesday is just the worst day to have a day off work in WoW