Server Maintenance During Peak Time

[Austin]

use the search

[Bernie]

No thank you.

[Bernie]

Not saying that this is strictly speaking about "MY TIME". I am saying that this time spread across all time zones is an unfavorable time. Like I said, run the numbers.

[Palinq]

Square Enix is a Japanese company. How do you think WoW players in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world have felt about their maintenance for the past 9 years? America is not the center of the world, deal with it.

5-11am CEST is prime time in Europe?

[amnie]

Not saying that this is strictly speaking about "MY TIME". I am saying that this time spread across all time zones is an unfavorable time. Like I said, run the numbers.

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it's IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT in Europe


it's quite a favourable time actually. and I'm saying that even though I am one of the people that regularly play between 1-3 AM (local time for the maintenance for me)

I read your message a few times. Still having trouble figuring out what your trying to say. Something about taking something like a man?

Anyway, my point was every other MMO has made an effort to offset their maintenance with times of inactivity---for which ever timezone they are effecting.

I think your mad about being in EU or something? But yeah if your a chick hit me up. Thanks

EVERY other MMO has offset maintenance for the different timezones??! the hell? which games are you playing?

I'll tell you which games I am playing right now and when they do their maintenance:

SW:TOR
Date: Friday September 20th
Duration: 2 hours
Time: 3AM PDT (10AM UTC) - 5AM PDT (12PM UTC)

that's noon until two in the afternoon for Central Europe (where the vast majority of their European Playerbase lives), on a Friday, where a lot of people leave work at that time and a lot of schools close early, too


LOTRO (can't find any info on upcoming maintenance so here's the time for the last one)
EST: 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM (GMT-4)
GMT: 13:00 till 15:00

that's 15:00 (3 PM) until 17:00 (5 PM) for Central Europe (again, where the majority of European Players live)

soooo... granted this isn't 'prime time', but it's surely having an impact, and this is not taking into consideration that a maitenance time like that will ALWAYS hit Asia/Australia/Oceania the hardest, while 'prime time' in the USA means no other zone will be hit.

I think what you are talking about is ONE game, namely World of Warcraft.
I'll give you a hint why they do their maintenance separately:
there's different clients for each data centre.

that is not the case for SWOTR, LOTRO and ARR. I'd rather keep it that way. I'm not fond of paying two subscriptions for one game.

[JayvirDeforte]

I could be wrong, but I recall prime time in the US to be 9-12 at night. If you consider that the servers will be back up by 6pm on the West Coast, it more than is ready for prime time. Seriously, it's just a couple hours for one day every once in a while. Do something else.