The only game to patch during prime time

[Devilair]

So, does Japan not have night shifts?
I guess it might be hard with stone set business hours being the standard...but they tend to be the most fun.

Regardless of it, they're patching at the time they feel comfortable with, no reason for whining. For once americans gets the short end of the stick OH GOD OH GOD. It's not the end of the world.
They won't make separate maints cause of how the client works, you have the chance to chose where to play at all time, may it be jp or na/eu, so it just makes sense that they do one big main to update all at the same time. Less risk of something going wrong and whatnot. Everyone in the world but US has dealt with it already, i'm pretty sure that if for once US deals with it, it won't be the end of the world.

[Itchyness]

"ONLY" game? Man, guess these people haven't really played many Korean MMO's out there. Majority of them patch smack in the middle of the day for hours on end.

[Skarith]

It's perfect for me. 0:00 -10:00 am here in europe, sweden at least. So if it's great time for both europe and japan I dont' see what you're complaining about? I'm pretty sure those two gorups together outweigh just NA

[Duero]

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

You should listen to your own advice...

[ReplicaX]

dat special snowflake

OP Maintenance Happens and fixes stuff. Everything will be ok.

[Aicha]

02:00 - 12:00 just sounds perfect to me.

[Duero]

perfect for me too btw. I can play late at night (2am) go sleep then go to work and come back to play again without seeing a bit of the maintenance

[ArkhamNative]

It's a 10-hour maintenance. There isn't more than a 4-hour block of time outside any of the game's 3 regions' prime time, so someone's going to get impacted. Also, the game is still on several types of lock-down, including a sales stoppage on its biggest source of new customers less than 2 weeks after launch. It's critical for them to increase capacity, install critical tools and functionality, and make some serious bug fixes. And last but not least, it's probably a good idea if the people at the center of this major operation aren't pulling a 12-hour all-nighter after a 12-hour all-day shift.

Anyway, once maintenance gets more routine, like around 3 hours long, then SE should be able to slide them into one of the two non-primetime periods. If they don't, then maybe the affected region will have some justification to gripe about it. But in the past, maintenances were only about every month or two, and had a big list of new game features with them, so there was mostly excitement rather than griping, IIRC.

[Evangela]

You'll cry. You're gonna cry. You always cry, see? You're crying.

[Waliel]

For all we know, JP + EU > NA alone. As an American, i have no problem with this. Means I can actually get some studying done

Looking at server numbers, Japan has more people playing than US and only slightly less than US and EU combined. Then again you can be in any server you want, so it's impossible to tell who plays where.