Who made this terrible decision?

Servers going down at prime playing time for maintenance and update? Yet another reason other mmo's *cough*WoW*cough* have thrived on the subscription model ... they realize not to take the servers offline during prime time. What an incredibly bad decision... I actually called the first few people who told me the servers were going down in 90 minutes trolls because I mean really ... how stupid does a company have to be to take their game down for prime hours?

If they didn't then instead of this thread there would be a thread complaining that the expansion releases at 5am instead of midnight. *shrug*

The expansion release isn't for several days. It's irrelevant what time of day the servers come back up for "early access" ... taking servers down during the primary hours in which working adults are able to play is the height of stupidity.

Those of us who live in the Southern Hemisphere have to put up with the servers going down in prime time every time there is maintenance. I'm sure you can cope with it as a one off.

It is always prime time for someone if you can't live without the game for a few hours one day you may have an issue.

Its just for the expansion, it means that RotHC early access launches as soon as the 9th arrives which means no complaints about the early access not being a full 5 days. Considering that we will not see this again until at least the next expansion its a petty thing to complain about.

Southern Hemisphere has the same time zones as the Northern Hemisphere.

It's always prime play time somewhere. Stop being so self-centered.

This time, EU catches a break. As an American, I am fine with that. And I'll be enjoying early access... EARLY.

At prime time? Mate, they're going down so ROTHC can have a midnight launch for early access players.

Here in the UK, we got to wait till 2AM before we get any patch, which many of us will be asleep by then and then mostly getting up early for work, whilst US folk can wait until the patch is installed and then probably play for 1 or 2 hours before they too go to bed.

Cmon man. I'm sure there's hundreds of other things you could do whilst the patch is implemented. Considering the servers are gonna be swamped tomorrow too, I think it's fair to say none of this even matters...

We in the European and Southern Hemisphere regions normally suffer this every single patch, I'm astonished that they've chosen to inconvenience the precious North Americans this time.
Mind you I'm sure the emergency patches will be in Euro prime time so business as usual there