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

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Friday, November 03, 2017, 10:21 (2659 days ago) @ Xenos

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.

Yeah I imagine that'd be a bigger headache since you can play with people on different servers in different regions. With something more simple (like a file server) that's not a big deal because it doesn't really matter what version the server you're connecting to is, but with a game that could get really complicated. I'm sure it's possible, but man I wouldn't want to be in charge of programming the code to let the servers and clients handle that well.

Sounds like they'd just have to add a version check. (says the oversimplifying dogcow)