I get that you guys are upset, but this thread is specifically for Server Maintenance Updates. Could you guys please, PLEASE stop posting unrelated stuff here? So those of us actually interested in Server Maintenance Updates don't have to sift through 95 comments and counting, just to find it's more arguing?Originally Posted by L3nko Go to original post
Love how people are missing the point with Australia servers, or any localised server for that matter.
I get it that global server restarts are beneficial to game stability, balance, updates, and overall...longevity. The fact is that despite having specific servers for certain countries/ time zones/ parts of the world...they are all (at this moment in time) remotely managed from one primary location. Update one server and roll it out globally. Cost efficient and requires minimal staff.
If this is the way it has to be done, I'd propose an equal balance of server maintenance that gives each time zone at least some playing time each night/ day.
Example: 7:30pm in Sydney is 04:30am in NY, 01:30am in LA, and 08:30am in London. If you shift the maintenance to start 2 hours earlier then majority of players in the EU and USA will be asleep, and Australia would get at least a couple of hours in with servers going back online at 8pm. Before people start commenting about the rest of the world, this would equate to early morning/ early afternoon restart times with minimal downtime during peak hours.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
It seems the servers are being updated first thing when people get to work at 9am in the EU.
I also get that some people work late/ early shifts and plan on playing early AM hours. Never gonna please everyone I suppose, but I'm also used to Blizzard localizing their server updates based on region and individual server locales to keep the masses happy and on a consistent schedule.
RAGEDOriginally Posted by Dirbz Go to original post
Go to work, get home, ready to play division - servers down for 3 hours...........FFS why
Originally Posted by xMiiSTY Go to original post
When the server is down, on the waiting screen, it only has one start game button, ESC won't work, space key and left mouse click will trigger the start game button, stupid design, just put a quit game button there.
And how many decades ago was that?Originally Posted by faust82 Go to original post
The GDP of the countries in the most affected times zones is more than twice that of North America.
Again by your logic it should be done in the timezones with the least potential players/biggest pool of money.
Do you know how many Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russians play online games now?
Clearly your education system isn't doing it's job, so here, let me school you a bit.
https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings...game-revenues/
http://www.statista.com/statistics/4...re-by-country/
http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/24/ga...-game-revenue/
Is there anything else you'd like to be educated on?
You mean the window that lets us see how dark it is outside BECAUSE ITS 7PM, AKA PRIME TIME? that window?Originally Posted by Geminikill Go to original post
Yeah good talk.