Why does the West keep paying the price?

So a few weeks back, I predicted that we would be seeing Maintenance windows moved up again, and last night's maintenance proved my projection was correct.

Here was my prophecy:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showp...7&postcount=62

The question is, why does the West Coast, and more importantly, Oceanica, have to keep bearing the brunt of maintenance windows, to benefit non-peak play times for Europe and the East Coast?

Let's look at these maintenance windows.

10pm - 2am (Pacific Daylight Time) is the equivalent of the following:

Sydney, Australia: 3pm - 7pm
Austin, Texas: 12am - 4am
New York City, New York: 1am - 5am
London, England: 6am - 10am

So, the time the servers return to operating is:

7pm Australia
4am Texas
5am New York
10am London

I would like someone from Bioware to provide me with hard numbers which prove that there are in fact more people playing and active at 10am in London, than there are a 10pm in Seattle, Portland and LA, or even at 7pm in Sydney.

Can you do that Bioware? Give us an explanation why the West continues to bear the brunt of maintenance windows, even though by all accounts, in the East and in Europe, servers return to operation during non-peak hours.

Or, alternatively, since you insist on the West bearing the full brunt on maintenace times, how about offering pro-rated subscription rates to compensate?

Or better yet, how about regional maintenance, so this can be a non-issue? Other MMOs do regional maintenace, so as to not inconvience their customers, so why not you as well?

I share this frustration.

You got that wrong by several hours.

I totally agree with this post. I live in Vancouver and have been an active MMO gamer for over 10 years. NEVER have I ever played an MMO where the weekly server outages are at peak times in my time zone.

2am PST seems to have worked for all the other games, why does this one need to have Midnight as the shutdown time? Gamers play in the evening, not in the morning.

Also, the twice a week shutdowns are becoming more and more common. BAD!

Bioware, great game, I wish I could play it a bit more. Responding to the OPs questions and comments would be a good start.

Not according to this:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...&p1=221&p2=240

10pm in Oregon, equates to 3pm in Sydney.

I know this might come as a shock to you, but not everyone works 9am-5pm. Lots of people worldwide work nights.
I won't delve much in to the fact that most 'Hardcore Gamers' don't even have jobs.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...p1=1986&p2=240

i thought the normal maint time was 2am pst

I should've read the part about the changed maintenance times

So can I /sign for 2am PST shutdowns.
If you look at the servers right now 10:16am PST, nearly every single one is low-medium population. That is definitely not peak hours. 2:00-6:00 am, that is a win right there.