The only game to patch during prime time

[blumps]

There is a reason that every MMO in history patches in the early AM hours. This is sheer laziness. Regardless of timezone you are patching from 5pm-3am or 8pm - 6am. This window covers the prime playing time for the vast majority of subscribers.

Ya those are American MMOs genius. This is a Japanese MMO. Go ahead and turn idiot mode off please, you are going to break the game.

[Fer]

Yo OP. I'm in NA too and it isn't prime time here. Its 8pm - 5am get over it being in your time zones IDEAL playtime. Also, NA isn't actually the majority of the players. There's a reason the NA and EU are in one data center. Its because the 2 countries together have similar numbers as Japan, Australia and all the Oceanic countries.

Grow up.

NA and EU, 2 countries?

[Bulwyf]

That also means the Japanese team must work skeleton hours (especially after the hell they went through to get ARR out to us). You seem to be forgetting that human beings are the ones who are servicing this to us. You keep mentioning "Square," like it's a contiguous being that runs on gears and latches rather than living, breathing people who will think it's bullshit that the hours that they're employed and contracted for are flipped just to satisfy you. It's a two way street for the upper management at Square. Remember that.

There are many video games companies that have employees working long shifts or odd hours. In fact I would say it is the norm. Look up "EA wife" for instance on the internet. I find it odd that a company would be against having employees working late or staggering shifts for a (hopefully) rare down time for this kind of maintenance.

[rocco1986]

OP, I understand your frustration. But think of it this way. Defiance is an American MMO, so they patch mostly during off prime times for America. Final fantasy is Japanese. So they do it that way. Just chill out and play something else for a night. I personally will he playing a amazing hd remake, of a wonderful American/Japanese crossover game called kingdom hearts 1.5 hd

[gigi_frana]

There is a reason that every MMO in history patches in the early AM hours. This is sheer laziness.

something`s very wrong with you.

[fides5566]

Mad?

In all seriousness.

Do you really think splitting the maintenance times for each region is the smart thing to do? you say you worked in business like this before, did your business go bankrupt? If they closed JP servers and left NA servers open, the servers would crash from all the JP players jumping on with their "NA server alts" and it would be 1017 only 10x worse.

Like I said, deal with it... not the end of the world.

Mad? Do you even read what I said?

Like I said if you have on idea about thing like this, just stop please for your own sake. Or just go and educate yourself if you don't believe me.

[Natine]

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!! I WON'T BE ABLE TO PLAY A GAME FOR A WHOLE DAY!!!!!! I think I'm gonna go rock back and forth in the corner to console myself...

[Alhanelem]

Please, people who don't really know what they're saying should stop.

There always has a way to avoid each region prime time. They even have NA/EU/JP servers. Tell me why can't they separately do a maintenance?
What ever the reason is, customer has a right to complain about this. Because this is their job to handle, not us.

I had worked in business like this before, I know what the standard is. If you don't know then you're the one who should "just stop".

It's a lot easier to roll out an update to all the servers at the same time than to do them at seperate times. It also eliminates the possibiolity of some people being able to discover something or beat something long before other people even have a chance to log on to the game.

[Diavolo]

The ignorance is strong in this one.

[RynaultB]

I had worked in business like this before, I know what the standard is. If you don't know then you're the one who should "just stop".

*Slowclaps* Bravo! Bravo! If your grammar is any indication of your intelligence, I'm sorry for whoever employs you. It also says worlds about our American Educational System.

Though, I must point out Blizzard closes ALL their servers down whenever they do any maintenance. And as others have pointed out before me, it would cost way too much to perform multiple maintenances staggered at different times. APPARENTLY, you haven't really worked for an MMO company. If you did it one of "those" F2P ones and I can see why they went that route.

I've met people like you, haughty "know-it-alls", that once their faulty knowledge is questioned they start throwing tantrums like the spoiled child they are.