Patch times

[flynnkd]

Hopefully someone in the company will see this.

I realise patch times are determined for reasons, which was why other US based games used to patch at early AM hours. This tended to be 9PM australian time (GMT+10), which as you can appreciate was very annoying.

I joined the European server to try to get around this, only to have last nights patch set to.... drum roll... 10PM my time. Sigh. Which stranegly was middle of the day in the UK (what! no overtime!).

It would be REALLY REALLY REALLY nice if patch times could be either UK2pm+ or before UK8am... whatever, just not at the time they were last night.

I know this will probably impact someone else, but I can only ask )).

[hivewasp]

Ehehe... imagine the poor technicians on site that have to come during the wee hours of the night just to run an update, if something goes wrong they have to wake up the poor engineers... lots of overhours for something that will always impact someone anyway; I think it's better if they keep doing their patches during their working hours so that they have at least all the manpower still on site in case of problem; I've been quite a bit annoyed with EQ's patches which always seemed to go wrong with my server and extended downtime kept happening from 7pm till 4am

[mikelaw]

Its your choice to be on the EURO server if they want the down time then, then they will do when they like tbh i dont really care when it is just aslong as it does happen so i see this game at least being tweeked

Your choice to join the euro server if you cant handle the times choose another

[ozric]

Ehehe... imagine the poor technicians on site that have to come during the wee hours of the night just to run an update, if something goes wrong they have to wake up the poor engineers... lots of overhours for something that will always impact someone anyway; I think it's better if they keep doing their patches during their working hours so that they have at least all the manpower still on site in case of problem; I've been quite a bit annoyed with EQ's patches which always seemed to go wrong with my server and extended downtime kept happening from 7pm till 4am

There are people working on the game 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. No "waking people up" or overtime

[hivewasp]

There are people working on the game 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. No "waking people up" or overtime

Wow... I predict coffee shortage and coffee prices to go up

[lawrence]

I'm not sure if we'd be able to do patches before 8 am CET, but I've passed your request on, Flynnkd.

[rivkah]

I'd agree that if at all possible it would be nice to have patch times perhaps between 2-8am CET. But I realise this isn't always possible, and it's no big deal for me if it's not.

Well, so long as it doesn't start going down every day in the middle of the afternoon anyway.