Proof that they are using statistics and not convenience of an 8am-4pm EU maintenance team which lines up perfectly with their shutdown schedule? There are still hundreds of people in fleet at midnight on my server. And I've checked in the morning too and there isn't anyone. People work, they should focus their shutdowns around that. It makes absolutely no sense to shutdown and reopen at 8am when prime time isn't for another 12 hours. Atleast when it's shut down in the morning you can go run some errands, if you are unemployed and never work.

Seriously, bioware, these should be scheduled atleast an hour later. I really don't even start playing until 11 and my brother doesn't start playing until 11:30. And we don't play on weekends, so there goes 1/4th of our playing time everytime you shut down at midnight. Shutdown like every other mmo at like 3-5am.