Define prime time!

[Starrywisdom]

I see so much bitching about maintenance being done in prime time. The latest maintenance was done in:

6am to 8am Tokyo time
10pm to 12am London time
5pm to 7pm New York time
2pm to 4pm Los Angeles time

Why are there so many North Americans bitching about maintenance hours being in their prime time? Is 5pm to 7pm considered your prime time? Are your prime time news aired between 5pm to 7pm?

Primetime News is 6PM.

SE has already said, multiple times, the grand majority of players are NA -- not JP. Scheduling an NA/EU mait during NA primetiem is assinine. These downtime/maits don't have 50 staff members on, it's a small team -- that should be able to come in during the night to turn it.

[amnie]

Primetime News is 6PM.

SE has already said, multiple times, the grand majority of players are NA -- not JP. Scheduling an NA/EU mait during NA primetiem is assinine. These downtime/maits don't have 50 staff members on, it's a small team -- that should be able to come in during the night to turn it.

I'll tell you what.. just because the majority of players lives in a specific country doesn't mean that the majority will also be affected by this. usually online gaming companies know damn well how to read their logs and figure out when the best time for maintenance was (for the longest time pretty much every MMO out there did their maintenance on Tuesday, for example. then pretty much every game switched to Wednesday because WoW did their maintenance on Tuesday... this has shifted in the last couple of years, but it's still apparent that companies 'do their research')

they have the actual numbers. they know what they are doing.

[Felis]

Primetime News is 6PM.

SE has already said, multiple times, the grand majority of players are NA -- not JP. Scheduling an NA/EU mait during NA primetiem is assinine. These downtime/maits don't have 50 staff members on, it's a small team -- that should be able to come in during the night to turn it.

It's a NA/EU data center and the maintenance is not during EU prime time. Where is the problem?

NA get the better latency, EU get the better maintenance time. Everyone is happy.