Aussie Server Maintenance

Meh. This sort of thing is old news for us Aussies, at least for me, and it honestly doesn't bother me anymore. It's convenient, it's one night a week, we deal with it.

Having said that, i'd pay good money to see the servers down for that long each week in US primetime for a month and have them keep the forums up. I would not miss that show for all the tea in China.

I doubt you have to rotate 1 shift a week. Most people would flip out at having to do that. Hard enough to work night shift. let alone be jumping down to a day shift or evening shift one day a week.

I worked 16 hours a day with only 1 or 2 days off a month. I will tell you now many people won't do that either. Even with the compensation it is very hard on the body!

Again it is 1 day a week you can't play. I am positive the world will not end after that one day! It is not like they secretly changed the times for the maintenance.

Remember I play the same time as the oceanic players and I don't think it is a big deal!

I doubt you have to rotate 1 shift a week. Most people would flip out at having to do that. Hard enough to work night shift. let alone be jumping down to a day shift or evening shift one day a week.

I worked 16 hours a day with only 1 or 2 days off a month. I will tell you now many people won't do that either. Even with the compensation it is very hard on the body!

Again it is 1 day a week you can't play. I am positive the world will not end after that one day! It is not like they secretly changed the times for the maintenance.

Remember I play the same time as the oceanic players and I don't think it is a big deal!

This is a poor argument to use. If a company is global, and has customers all over the world to please, they have to desl with different timezones. You employ people with this in mind. If you, as an employee cant adapt to shift patterns, well get a job doing regular shifts.
Having said that, rotating the downtime for regions could be monthly rather than weekly, or even every 4 months. Doesn't have to be weekly.

And they have chosen a time that there are the fewest players online globally. There is no global conspiracy. They don't hate EU or Oceanic players. They looked at their biometrics and found the time when they had the least number of players.

Eventually in the future they may go to a rotation or do separate shutdown times for regions.

No matter what time they choose they are going to be affecting people. It will not matter if they split it into regions. Someone is going to post and complain about maintenance happening during their play time. I am sure there are plenty of Oceanic people who play at 2 am their time when the patch would be happening! What are you guys gonna say when they complain about the unfair patch/maintenance times?

I think your missing the point man, it's not about ONE day a week where we cant play, it's about the fact that many of us only have a few hours on certain days a week to play and for a lot of us one of those days just happens to be a patch day.

Lets say for example you did your 16 hours a day for a month, and then got Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday off. You'd think to yourself "Great, here's a chance to play that new star wars game in the afternoons once I've spent the day catching up on all the housework and associated chores I haven't been able to do 'cos I have been working 16 hours a day for a month and have had only 8 hours left to myself each day, at least 6 of which were spent on sleep". Then 'Bang' server goes down just as you finish dinner and sit down at your computer....

You to would think all of the aforementioned posts regarding this were totally valid, rather than make out like you know whats best for the company, or why they cant do rotating shifts, etc.

If a gym was only open on Tuesdays 9-5 and I worked Tuesdays 9-5 I wouldn't buy a membership there.

People that work 9-5 hate that banks are only open 9-5 too... just sayin..