Maitenance during APAC primetime... again..

Why? Because if a bug sneaks through, people start demanding a second maintenance within the same week to correct the bug.

They do a second maintenance? People start complaining about the multiple maintenances.

In other words, people on this forum will keep on complaining for the sake of complaining.

Since you know maintenance is going to happen on Tuesdays every single week, the smart thing to do is to NOT schedule anything on Tuesdays. Second, since you know unscheduled maintenance down time happens on Thursday, the smart thing to do is to NOT schedule anything on Thursday either. This still leaves 5 other days you can schedule runs.

It is also asinine to expect any company with a world wide presence but with its employees in one time zone to spend 24 hours pushing out maintenance when they can get it all done at one time. It is not only not cost efficient but it isn't time and resource efficient either.

Whining about it every single week isn't going to change it. Since you know what is going to happen and when it is likely to happen and how long it is going to last, be smart and plan around it.

Since you know maintenance is going to happen on Tuesdays every single week, the smart thing to do is to NOT schedule anything on Tuesdays. Second, since you know unscheduled maintenance down time happens on Thursday, the smart thing to do is to NOT schedule anything on Thursday either. This still leaves 5 other days you can schedule runs.

It is also asinine to expect any company with a world wide presence but with its employees in one time zone to spend 24 hours pushing out maintenance when they can get it all done at one time. It is not only not cost efficient but it isn't time and resource efficient either.

Whining about it every single week isn't going to change it. Since you know what is going to happen and when it is likely to happen and how long it is going to last, be smart and plan around it.

Unscheduled maintenance is unscheduled, and it's happened on pretty much everyday of the week. By your logic, we should just not plan to do anything in our prime time just in case

This was never about Tuesdays. We know that happening. We deal with it and plan around that. It's about being screwed out of a SECOND night most weeks.

5 days and 8 people with different schedules. For example, I have real life commitments on Wednesday and Saturday, then I only have a 8 hours between shifts on a Friday nights and every second Sunday night. So those 5 nights very quickly get excluded and I'm down to 1.5. Now I have to find 7-15 other people that only want to raid once a week on a Monday. Yeah.... Or change my life around "only a game"....

Anyway, is having to pay the staff overtime to come in at night and deploy a patch cost efficient or would they be better off doing it in the middle of the day for the US? Please THINK before you post, anything you say to defend the action can easily be twisted to support the APAC ideals.

Is the any week they don't organise a maitenance for the exact time most of APAC region starts raiding? It's so frustrrrrrrrrating.

Since the "unscheduled" maintenance tends to take place on Thursdays...don't schedule stuff on Thursdays.

Occasionally, very occasionally, you'll see unscheduled maintenance on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. Then you'll just have to wait it out. I can't remember the last time an unscheduled maintenance didn't hit on a Thursday.

I never said it was my view. That's just how BioWare looks at it. It's also how a majority of game publishers look at it. They do the maintenance when the fewest number of players will be impacted. It's not a personal attack directed at you, it's simply a business decision.

You make assumptions, but if anyone should be thinking around here its the APAC whiners who can't seem to comprehend that ALL OF THE SERVERS HAVE TO BE PATCHED AT THE SAME TIME. You also make the assumption that the employees pushing the patch are "coming in early" and "on overtime" when salaried employees tend not to see overtime and have flex schedules so...in fact...it is cost efficient.

I was responding to the people who seem to think there is a concerted effort to undermine your playtime by the timing of the patches when none exists.