Let's talk about D2's maintenance schedule (Destiny)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Friday, November 03, 2017, 09:37 (2659 days ago) @ Xenos

IIRC, EvE Online, for example, has a daily scheduled downtime, but it's usually less than an hour.

Correct. It's usually only a few minutes. I think they just restart things most of the time. It's also in the middle of the night, at least for people near my time zone.

That's the real struggle right there, they are always going to impact someone. We actually have it pretty good in the US since the updates are usually when the average person is either at work or in school. In most of Europe it's right around when they get out of school or work.

Couldn't they just shift the time based on the server? I mean, they don't apply it to every server at once do they? I understand the consequences... for 12-24 hours every week, the version would be different on the servers so you wouldn't be able to play with those people...

I guess it's just not worth the effort.