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Different maintenance times for NA and EU servers
So, for UTC +1, which accounts for a very big chunk of european players I think, today's maintenance time means having the server down from 4 PM to 9 PM, that's most of the afternoon gone, definitely out of school time for most students; this leaves us time to play only after dinner, assuming everything goes smoothly and there's no need to prolong the downtime. For big patches it could still be ok (except those are the ones that often get extended), but for the weekly ones it feels kinda bad, like Europeans are second class players whose times never get considered (see blade&soul...).
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So then it comes down to what time is least busy across all servers put together.
They could adjust the time though. Like, I don't think at 3-4 am pacific they'll have too many players up and doing stuff, starting maintenance at that time would mean morning in eu, which would still be a good time to have the server down. In fact maintenances in Europe where often started late night or early morning.
Remember that Nexon wants the game to be up and have maximum logged in players all the time. That's why they keep having content like "hold this for half an hour" and "charge your pendant of the spirit for two hours" and so on. So when they take the servers down, they try to do it at a time when they lose the least amount of player-hours.
But also, they have their own people (both in LA and in Seoul, at times) who need to be awake to do the work.
It's a balancing act.
I assume that as time goes by and they collect more usage statistics, they'll figure out the best time of day to do this. But since we literally have players in every single timezone on the planet, somebody is always going to get the short end of the stick.
and also it would simply be to much work to have 2 different times since 95% of eu people play on reboot cause Luna is a deadzone
I mean, a simple server check, sure that might be easily done if they put in a little more effort but they wont be able to do that for most other things.